Maravida
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How about a removable handle for a valve that does not have room to move? Or the valve handle for the head discharge to keep the coast guard happy?
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Sorry, but Volvo no longer supports these.
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"Throw them away and immediately you will figure out what they do and you will need them to do that the next day..."
Yes and another thing you will find is that they are no longer available.
But looking at them and my boat, I would go with the deck fill wrenches. On and off makes perfect sense to me. Put the cap "ON" and take the cap "OFF". The angle also makes sense to prevent knuckle skins.
Further, since they were found in the head, I would leave them there!! An emergency in the head can be messy without the proper tools. Most any place else, improvisation is acceptable.
Yes and another thing you will find is that they are no longer available.
But looking at them and my boat, I would go with the deck fill wrenches. On and off makes perfect sense to me. Put the cap "ON" and take the cap "OFF". The angle also makes sense to prevent knuckle skins.
Further, since they were found in the head, I would leave them there!! An emergency in the head can be messy without the proper tools. Most any place else, improvisation is acceptable.
Voyager3
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If you can open all your fills and close all your valves - Toss them.
I say that having about 80 feet of various size hoses with some of the weirdest fittings on them stacked behind the generator that I have no idea what they were used for!!
I say that having about 80 feet of various size hoses with some of the weirdest fittings on them stacked behind the generator that I have no idea what they were used for!!
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Reminds me of an incident last year when we were having a water maker installed in the lazarette. The installer popped his head out and said he was installing the strainer in the storage beneath the port lazarette floorboard, what did I want to do with all the hoses in there.
What storage, what hoses, say I. I went in and had a look. There was storage under both the port and starboard lazarette floorboards with hoses a plenty as well as some other stuff. I had the boat three years - and never knew there two compartments there!
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Perhaps decyphering the logo could hold a clue.
looks like a removable handle to a ball vale to me. go to:
https://www.zoro.com/midwest-control-exhaust-ball-valve-12-fpt-300-cwp-adv-50/i/G7723987/
Not an exact match, but you get the idea.
https://www.zoro.com/midwest-control-exhaust-ball-valve-12-fpt-300-cwp-adv-50/i/G7723987/
Not an exact match, but you get the idea.
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the key to the mystery is obviously the cult like logo. maybe try to search all the thru hull manufacturers first.. then send it to letters to the editor at Professional Boatbuilder Magazine.
I have a "hose locker" like that, too. It contains all the extra hose I bought so that it wouldn't be too short, plus all the ones I bought that WERE too short and I had to go buy a longer one. It's also pretty well hidden, a couple of levels down under some removable sole panels. If there's ever a market for assorted bits of hose, I'm gonna be rich!
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They fit and turned the fill caps. However a few things.
The two are different sizes.
These are stored in the master head, the fill caps are up top outside the PH.
This is hanging in the PH.
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Handles cut off of two way ball valves. It made the ball valves useless and the handles are now useless.
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Why cut them off when all you have to do is loosen the nuts?
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As far as the ball valves, they could have been used ones that were pulled out of service.
Regarding the other cap tool, that could have been acquired later or by a different owner.
Not sure you need to keep them, but I would say there's a good chance the mystery is solved. Now about my prize.......
Ted
Regarding the other cap tool, that could have been acquired later or by a different owner.
Not sure you need to keep them, but I would say there's a good chance the mystery is solved. Now about my prize.......
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Sorry, not convinced.
There are just too many tools already available to remove deck fills. Why either pay, or go through the project, to adapt a valve handle?
Just doesn't make sense.
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How old is your boat? How many owners has it had? I would say it's certainly a possibility and maybe a likelyhood. Haven't heard anything else that's even remotely as likely. Of course, leaving it in the drawer for the next owner to ponder is also an option.
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It is a homemade paint can opener, some call it a church key. similar to a store bought one for a buck.
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Greetings,
Mr. SV. THIS is what I know as a church key:
Mr. SV. THIS is what I know as a church key:
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Wut?
Nighttrain
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Obviously they are the sea chest keys. Can’t believe no one figured that out.
