Gary, Larry,
The gland, or a tight enough grommet, sounds fine for wires, tubes etc. but I
thought the question was for a throttle rod.
A cable can be held tightly, but a rod, especially for a throttle, needs free
play.
What I thought of initially was a tube, reasonably close in size to the rod,
itself held tightly in a gland/grommet. (of course it would gave to allow for
angle changes from the actuating arms.)
Ideal might be an inside teflon liner etc. and maybe something like a felt
washer
each end to keep grit etc. out.
Cheers,
Rick
(ps, when I first saw Mcafee and firewall I thought it was another computer
virus
warning ;-)
gary baker wrote:
> Larry
> I don't know what you call them in the states, maybe a bushing ?they are a two
> piece metal gland ( made from stainless steel )you order them by the size of
> the ID eg. 3/8 or 1/2 inch there are many sizes, one screws into the other
> and forces a rubber or nylon bushing to seal whatever is put through them ( I
> use them for electrical cables in explosive atmospheres or where intrinsically
> safe devices are used) if you want to use them with a moving part just make
> the rod slightly smaller or the ID of the gland slightly larger and screw the
> gland together until there is a slight interference, this will most certainly
> seal out any smoke or flame and stop any light shining through ( no need to
> con the inspector) make sure they are the metal ones and not the plastic type
> hope this helps
> I intend to use them for all my electrical cables and air lines that passed
> through the fire wall also the throttle cable etc. on my liner
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