hello and welcome to staying vessel Seeker What a Beautiful Day this would
be for sailing we're on Lake gardenel just outside Russellville Arkansas but
some things I got to get taken care of before we make the trip down to the Gulf
of Mexico and one of them is a water tank that I can't pump water out of
and I just hate tools that don't have trigger locks on me I use a piece of wire you know I
know somebody got hurt one day but why do you have to punish all of us all right so what we
got going on here is uh this is a water tank and that's water tank this one it's uptake pipe must
have a break in it or something because the pumps over there are sucking air when they
try to drop on it so I'm transferring the fluid the water over to this tank where I can use it
when I get this dried out I'm going to take it all out we're gonna go see what happens
welcome to ceiling vessel Seeker today's job is to figure out why I can't draw water out of
that water tank there there's actually two tanks back here with that one and one over
here and I have ball valves here that let me decide which tank I'm going to draw from and I
have ball valves that let me decide which tank I'm going to draw from but this one is sucking
air up so there must be something wrong with its pickup the suction line passes through the
bulkhead just like that one there then there's a vent on it as well and it works for the first
you know a few inches of water then it starts drying here so when I was up in Tulsa sitting
on the heart it froze I mean it was minus eight and I had water in that tank but I think that
ice must have pushed that suction tube up to the side and snapped it I think so we'll take a look
there we go
all right this is the pickup tube here that's a lot of water in there this is only half the tank
the other half the tank is underneath that hatch there so it goes on back that direction and then
this is the second tank I got about 300 gallons per side this is the rain water collection side
which probably explains why it has the dirt down there in the bottom but that only bothers city
folks and yeah I don't want to say the other word it didn't bother me a bit I used to drink out of
a stream that had crayfish growing in it I figured the crayfish were happy no reason why I shouldn't
be unfortunately I don't see any damage to this pickup tube it's stainless steel it's just got a
coating a pan over the top of it looks like it's bumped into the wall down below so it's been bent
I don't see a break and this thing just scrape all this beautiful tape off
I actually reuse it if you need to need since I can't see it break Let's uh let's try pumping
water out of that tank I already got the valve set up for it you can see it drawing air through there
not water and we'll just dump the water overboard that goes into a bathtub up top
getting there somewhere after you've done all this pecs between the valve and the tank now
you put some of that self-vulcanizing tape over that make sure no air is getting through there
but damn but then they get in somewhere I think the air bubbles going through there too so it's
somewhere about the tank I just don't see where I'm gonna wrap a little some Vulcanizing tape
around that joint there I'll see it crack I don't feel a crack see if that helps
yeah still sucking air what the hell is that coming from well hell that's making it better
I put another layer of tape on that and I don't see any air now turn this off and see if it
builds pressure yep sure enough one air bubble right there let's see if it draws it through
that was it okay well I can pump water to the other tank all right give it another
wrap for good measure and it's odd that it leaked because it's the same setup as
this one over here but no problems at all on this side I just glued A
fitting into the stainless steel and then put regular pack stuff on it
so I don't know so now we got our pulse working we're using the pumps to uh pump water out of this
tank and fill that tank up I am going to dry this one out because I got to do some repairs on the
paint that butyl tape actually had enough stick to it it actually lifted some of the coating from the
edge of the hatch and a little bit on the deck and then I got a spot I gotta fix over there so
just take advantage of it and clean everything up put it back right so I feathered the edge
of this paint into the steel and then xylene cleans off the residual butyl tape really well
and preps the steel you need it clean and oil free just gonna pump the rest of it overboard
this is a Marillac too not only a great paint for the
decks but it's good for potable water tanks too
well the amerilok has dried overnight now it's time to put on the butyl tape
that butyl tape is fantastic except anything you want to stick something down and not have
it leak so when you attach deck fittings to boats especially fiberglass boats they
bolt everything down the welded this stuff is fantastic it's just like chewing gum on
the floor and it's about that hard to get off too but it almost melts like
butter when you put xylene on it so oh it's not chemical resistant it's water resistant
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just get a corner started and work along the edge there you go
now you don't tie them all the way down because I don't want to put them with too much bend on it
just enough to get the next nut on
you'll likely want to go around snugging the nuts several times because the butyl table slowly ooze
out and they'll loosen up it never dries hard so if it ever starts leaking you can just come back
and tighten it up a bit more and that'll probably take care of it I got one hatch up there on the
deck I probably tighten it up a dozen times next thing to do is add 300 gallons of water in here
and that'll correct my list because I'm leaning a little bit to the port today because 300 gallons
is 2 400 pounds and I'm gonna store my transfer hoses down here that's where I may need them
the miracle is this the more we share the more we have live long and prosper Leonard
Nimoy and in that regard I hope you've enjoyed this video and will show us what you make today
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