Tru design Seacocks in the engine space.

[geem]

To push using plastic seacocks in the machinery spaces up the agenda .Give them plenty of oxygen to force change .
But first the industry, that’s boat builders , owners , surveyors , coding society’s and last but not least insurance Co s need to have a discussion.

Begs the Q if none metal are that good why hasn’t this discussion already taken place ?

The discussion = Warts and all stress test the various debating points .

Pointless 10 different folks referring to the blow torch u tube vid .= only need one person the first .
Equally pointless 20 different folks saying one after another in post after post “ I will be long gone if the fire is that big ……..” Yeh we all get that .

We need a surveyors and insurance Cos perspective as they appear to be holding the puppet strings in this Punch and Judy show .Nothing new there btw .

It's not an issue for my insurance company and they are one of the big players. They were also happy with LIFEPO4 batteries

 

[PCUK]

Non metal fittings are not allowed in steel vessels, all others are fine.

 

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Non metal fittings are not allowed in steel vessels, all others are fine.

What

 

[rogerthebodger]

Non metal fittings are not allowed in steel vessels, all others are fine.

I have plastic speed and depth fittings on my steel boat with bo issue

Please can you give me a reference to any restrictions

 

[Portofino]

From what I can tell it's because not enough people are asking, and that's because certain people keep spreading FUD in various boating forums about them being unsuitable or about them being against regulations without providing any evidence for their wild assertions.

If you want the topic to be discussed properly, start by being more evidence focused and don't make any claims without providing some kind of real information from an authority. If you don't know, ask the manufacturer or regulatory body and then quote them.

For what it's worth, I asked both the shop and TruDesign and both confirmed they are perfectly suitable. I have yet to see any real information to the contrary, although I can see how the quote from the coding doc might be misinterpreted by people with an agenda.

Handles snapping off is well documented. Maybe that’s it ? Although true design are better the die has been cast and hard ( no pun intended) for plastic to shake off .Plenty of chatter .
eg but not exclusively. Marelon Seacock Failure

 

[lustyd]

Funny that you call out handles failing as that’s an extremely common failure on metal fittings. Probably more so than plastic