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<p>[QUOTE="wlwhittier, post: 9528454, member: 76316"]If that hadn't been on an official AF site, the description would be suspect, in my (limited) experience. But it <i>would</i> do the job, for an inflatable raft.</p><p>Problem is, each hole would need two of them; entry an' exit holes. Then, that's only one hole...there may be some (many?) more. I'll posit that their use was temporary, until a proper patch were applied to the hole...just long enough to keep most of the air within the raft. I'm pretty sure the rafts had a patch kit as standard equipment, an' it would take up a lot less cube an' weight than high multiples of threaded plugs.</p><p><br /></p><p>It'd be an interesting research project to determine how many of these plugs were in each raft kit.</p><p><br /></p><p>The remarkable things we learn here![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="wlwhittier, post: 9528454, member: 76316"]If that hadn't been on an official AF site, the description would be suspect, in my (limited) experience. But it [I]would[/I] do the job, for an inflatable raft. Problem is, each hole would need two of them; entry an' exit holes. Then, that's only one hole...there may be some (many?) more. I'll posit that their use was temporary, until a proper patch were applied to the hole...just long enough to keep most of the air within the raft. I'm pretty sure the rafts had a patch kit as standard equipment, an' it would take up a lot less cube an' weight than high multiples of threaded plugs. It'd be an interesting research project to determine how many of these plugs were in each raft kit. The remarkable things we learn here![/QUOTE]
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