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Posted by: Bleyseng Mar 29 2006, 12:23 AM

This was inside a MPS sent to me, wow, someone really had a bright idea. Coat the cracked diaphram in a ton of silicone to make a seal!
It didn't work. dead horse.gif

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Posted by: messix Mar 29 2006, 12:30 AM

thats silly, everyone knows you have to use duct tape for that.

Posted by: Engman Mar 29 2006, 08:30 AM

I prefer JB weld.

M

Posted by: bd1308 Mar 29 2006, 08:31 AM

thats funny...

b

Posted by: RustyWa Mar 29 2006, 09:59 AM

Geoff,

When you put the MPS's back together, do you reuse the diaphram gasket? Or do you remove it and just use that black think goop you were talking about?

Posted by: Bleyseng Mar 29 2006, 12:38 PM

Yes, I toss out the paper gasket and use the Ultimate Gasket maker Grey- MotoSeal #1 to seal the diaphram to the body. Let it dry for a day before testing it!

Alot of "bad" MPS's just have a bad paper gasket seal, all the rest have blown diaphrams.

Posted by: Root_Werks Mar 29 2006, 12:50 PM

QUOTE (messix @ Mar 28 2006, 10:30 PM)
thats silly, everyone knows you have to use duct tape for that.

Got rolls of that stuff.

Posted by: Bleyseng Mar 29 2006, 01:38 PM

I have been meaning to use that Gorilla Grip tape as maybe that will last 30 secs vs 5 secs.

Posted by: balljoint Mar 29 2006, 02:55 PM

I have some Copper RTV that juuuuuuust might do the trick......not sure if there's any Berylium in it though. Might have to do the old taste test.

Posted by: messix Mar 29 2006, 02:59 PM

hey look whats that on the sidewalk. looks like dog shit.

[cheech and chong]

Posted by: kwales Mar 29 2006, 07:43 PM

I'm gonna try to glue my wife's diaphragm to the part....

Mebbe that will work

Dog shit!.. Oh CRAP!

Ken

Posted by: Headrage Mar 29 2006, 07:48 PM

Is it possible to do a NDI inspection on the diaphrams and solder the weak points with a heavy lead based solder?

Posted by: Headrage Mar 29 2006, 07:50 PM

QUOTE (kwales @ Mar 29 2006, 05:43 PM)
I'm gonna try to glue my wife's diaphragm to the part....

Mebbe that will work

Dog shit!.. Oh CRAP!

Ken

You better watch out for Alpha....

He'll figure out a way to bypass it...

Posted by: messix Mar 29 2006, 11:00 PM

are you sure it's dog shit? i dunno. touch it. does it feel like dog shit? i dunno. smell it. does it smell like dog shit? idunno. taste it.

Posted by: Bleyseng Mar 30 2006, 12:07 AM

QUOTE (messix @ Mar 29 2006, 09:00 PM)
are you sure it's dog shit? i dunno. touch it. does it feel like dog shit? i dunno. smell it. does it smell like dog shit? idunno. taste it.

You can do all the dogshit tasting for me!

You can't solder where it breaks as it right at the flex point!

Posted by: rmital Mar 30 2006, 10:50 AM

...if someone (me) needed to get a MPS, where or how would they do that?

Pelican has the no longer available posted.

Thanks for any info,
Ray

Posted by: Bleyseng Mar 30 2006, 11:08 AM

I have one or two available- 043, 037 and 049.