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02-01-2017, 05:04 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Litchfield Park, AZ
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Originally Posted by pazmanyflyer
I asked ACS today. Email exchange below.
Me: Is there a hazmat fee for shipping this new brand torque seal product?
ACS : If the item is shipped by ground transport, no haz fee. Air shipments are considered hazardous.
So there shouldn't be any hazmat fee if shipped UPS/FedEx/USPS ground, although I haven't ordered any recently to confirm.
See Q+A tab here: http://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalo...?clickkey=3836 |
Updated email from ACS:
The torque seal cannot be shipped via USPS under any condition. If the item is shipped by ground transport (ie UPS Ground), no haz fee. Air shipments are considered hazardous.
So no torque seal shipped USPS at all.
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02-01-2017, 05:32 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Vancouver island, BC Canada
Posts: 385
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Thanks guys. I guess I'll try some of the alternate methods suggested. I can't justify ordering that stuff and paying UPS rates.
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02-01-2017, 07:31 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Cincinnati, OH
Posts: 1,551
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Go to Home Depot/Lowes, get a sample size of their most brilliant color interior or exterior latex house paint (color - your choice). It's already pretty thick and it dries quickly. Put it in a small paint bottle - like finger nail polish bottle with an applicator, and apply your 'torque seal mark'. You could also use oil based paint, but it will take longer to dry and it's not very thick. I've painted stripes on the asphalt ramp in front of our hanger - for two jets- with interior white latex house paint, and they have been there for five years! They haven't peeled off or faded.
If it chips off your nut, put a little more on at your next condition inspection - after you check the torque. The small paint sample containers at lowes is good for at least a hundred RV's.
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RV6/2001 built/sold 2005
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02-01-2017, 07:32 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Houston, Texas
Posts: 212
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02-01-2017, 08:02 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Hamilton, VA
Posts: 419
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'...This stuff works great. Aircraft Spruce carries it....'
Just received a tube of this Dykem torque seal for free shipping, via Amazon.. I too found that Torque Seal from Aircraft Spruce had a crazy high shipping cost, although i didn't know that it was considered "hazmat"!
I don't know how Amazon does it, but anything I buy through them shows up within a day or two on my doorstep! In this case, this little tube of torque seal came in the typical Amazon box surrounded by bubble wrap to take up all the extra space in the box.
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Last edited by jdmunzell : 02-01-2017 at 08:14 PM.
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02-02-2017, 04:27 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: 45G, Brighton, MI
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Scott Hersha
Go to Home Depot/Lowes, get a sample size of their most brilliant color interior or exterior latex house paint (color - your choice). It's already pretty thick and it dries quickly. Put it in a small paint bottle - like finger nail polish bottle with an applicator, and apply your 'torque seal mark'. You could also use oil based paint, but it will take longer to dry and it's not very thick. I've painted stripes on the asphalt ramp in front of our hanger - for two jets- with interior white latex house paint, and they have been there for five years! They haven't peeled off or faded.
If it chips off your nut, put a little more on at your next condition inspection - after you check the torque. The small paint sample containers at lowes is good for at least a hundred RV's.
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I think I'd rather go with a lacquer nail polish; it's more brittle when cured, thus more likely to disclose relative movement than the more flexible latex paint.
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02-02-2017, 05:46 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 1,516
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T shirt fabric paint
I have always used one of these 1 oz Acrylic Fabric paints.
Available at your local hobby/craft store for a couple of dollars
It dries to a rubbery hardness and comes in any color that you want.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/33455958?...&wl13=&veh=sem
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02-02-2017, 07:08 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Mahomet, Illinois
Posts: 2,195
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As of a year ago or so, Harbor Fright sold torque-seal in orange for sure, maybe yellow too. (I have not looked for it there recently.)
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Terry Ruprecht
RV-9A Tip-up; IO-320 D2A
S. James cowl/plenum
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02-08-2017, 08:21 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Lake Country, B.C. Canada
Posts: 2,416
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one source
Jim, I managed to coerce Fastenal to order me a couple tubes of Dykem Cross-Check from their wholesaler....normally you have to get a case of 24! $10 ea. 
if you don't have a Fastenal where you can swing a deal, let me know and I'll mail you a tube! 
happy torqueing!
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RV-9a - SOLD!....
Lake Country, BC
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02-08-2017, 12:03 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Ooltewah, TN.
Posts: 577
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I picked up the Dykem Cross Check on Amazon for around 10 bucks for the yellow color. Blue was the cheapest. Organe is about 9 bucks with free shipping.
You can buy it in a case of 24 for $160 shipped if you want a huge lot. I just picked up 2 tubes since I am just on my tail kit.
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