[Rhodes22-list] How's your keel work progressing?

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Graham,
 
Another option you have to speed up the evaporation process would be with  
heat. I'll let you figure out how to do it. I recall someone else that did 
this  using electric heaters.
 
Rummy
 
 
In a message dated 7/31/2014 6:55:54 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org writes:

Thanks  Rummy:

I have tried both sucking and blowing. The water is at the  bottom of the
keel in and around the cement fill which is cracked so I  can't get a tube
down there to suck up the water. So now I have drilled  some holes at the
outside bottom of the keel and have the  shop vac  blowing in from the top 
in
the hope that the pressure will push the water  out. It is working to some
degree and at least I can see if the water is  dripping. When I drill a new
hole I often find that the material the comes  out is damp. I doubt that
either strategy will work and even evaporation  seems problematic as the
water is in and around the keel material where  there would be very little
air circulating. If I seal it up while there is  any significant water in
there I might well have the problem of the cracks  develop come freeze up. 

I have wondered about these options: 

-  trying to flush out the moisture with alcohol,
- adding antifreeze and seal  it up,
- just let the vacuum go for as long as it takes,
- cutting out  large chunks of the sides of the keel and remove what is 
there
and letting  the area air dry,
- pour in thinned epoxy, epoxy paint or polyester  thinking it would go to
the bottom and displace the water up where it might  do less damage or be
more prone to evaporation.

None of these  options are particularly appealing either because they might
not work or  involve a huge effort - I have kind of had my fill with huge
efforts. I am  rally annoyed with myself for letting this happen. With the
large cracks  open for three years I at least figured that any water in the
keel would  have drained out. Now that I have nicely sealed the cracks I 
have
water in  the keel. 

Graham 

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Graham,
Good idea of using the shop vac, but I  think you will have better results 
if
you taped it off and sucked instead  of blowing. I have used this method to
remove moisture from several  projects over the years including industrial
flat  roofs that were  saturated with water.
I recently purchased ($113.00 from Amazon) a cheap 10  x 20 canopy to put
RumRunner under so that I can rebed her ports. Rains  here are hard to
predict  and she won't fit into my garage.  

Rummy


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