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REGULATORY COMPLIANCE with, so the savings in lubricants don’t away. Those are the facts. The only conditions, weather, the actions of an- apply. However, these liners lasted 7.5 question left to answer is: what are you other boat operating in close proxim- years versus about three for the stain- doing to lessen your liabilities on the wa- ity to yours and 1,001 other variables. less / brass units. The boat has been ter – or more correctly, what might seep What you can control, you should. out of the water in drydock for vari- into it through no fault of your own? In, When it comes to VGP identi? ed dis- ous things a number of times since around, and on brown water, there are charge streams – below or above deck ? rst installed, but I never had to do many things out of your control – tidal – the answers are already here. anything with them (liners and bear- ings) until now.”

Bateman is effusive with his praise for the product, saying further, “We might have gone longer than we should have, but we were comfortable that the liners were doing what they were supposed to do. The wear life far exceeded what Thordon told us to ex- pect.” That said; Bateman admits that the Thordon product is slightly more expensive to install than the standard stainless or brass liners, and the cost of the material is a little more.

Beyond the shaft bearing applica- tions, the on deck equipment market is also progressing for Thordon.

Thordon’s Marshall told Marine-

News, “The deck side equipment market is very exciting. Initial focus on ThorPlas-Blue in steering system linkage related applications alone has yielded over 800 installations and growing. And, our ThorPlas-Blue

Spherical Bearing has solved issues al- ready for numerous major ? eet play- ers. As efforts expand here, we now have applications in life boat davits, winches, fairlead rollers, doors, and more. Anywhere the customer would like to eliminate redundant mainte- nance and grease lubrication is a good target.” Double J’s Bateman hasn’t gone there yet, but says, “Based upon the success of what we’ve seen with the shaft liners, we’re looking into deck equipment liners, as well.”

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