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Narrator: Welcome back! You're tuned into Ship Shape TV.
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America's favorite boat improvement show!
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(music plays)
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Wolf: John what we have here is our
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vented gas fill that we're injected molding
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on our molding machine.
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John: Okay, and this
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is a little bit different
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than a traditional type of fill.
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And let's talk about this. We're now down in Miami, Florida
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at Perko Incorporated.
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And who we have the honor
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of having on the program, a very good friend of mine.
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This is Wolf Hennig. And Wolf
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heads up the product engineering
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out here at Perko Incorporated.
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I see that we have a lot of traditional fills here.
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And you guys for a lot, a lot...I mean like it's over a century,
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you guys are making this type of hardware.
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And let's talk about some the traditional
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styles that you guys make.
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What is this one right here?
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Wolf: This is our traditional
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straight fill. It's made out of
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chrome plated brass.
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John: Okay. And what do you have to use
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in combination
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with that in order to fill up a tank with a liquid?
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Wolf: I also have to use a vent,
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because you have to escape the
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air out of the tank as it's being filled
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with the liquid.
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John: Now is there a downside to
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having a fill in the side of the boat
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because that's traditionally where they mount them.
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Okay, it has to be on the outside of
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the boat. You don't vent on the inside of the boat.
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Because what happens sometimes when your filling up?
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Wolf: Well sometimes a little bit of the
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fuel will escape out the vent.
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John: You know that's kind of a downside
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Wolf: Absolutely.
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John: If you're spitting fuel into the water
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that's not real cool for the environment is it?
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Wolf: Absolutely not.
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John: Okay what did you guys come up with to
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kind of avoid that problem?
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Wolf: We've come up with a vented fill,
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which prevents that from happening.
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We've developed a fuel fill
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which has a 1-1/2 inch diameter neck where the fuel
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goes in and is directed to the gas tank.
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And then from the return line,
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the air escape is a half inch
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diameter line over here,
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so the turn vent gets in.
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John: Okay now check this out this really cool.
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Because what happens,
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is when your filling up the tank
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and it does spit out a little bit of fuel.
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It spits it back into the tank
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rather than into the water.
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That's ingenious!
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Let's real quick talk about the machine that's
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behind us. What is the material that
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you're using to make this part
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in this machine.
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Wolf: This is a fiber full nylon which was
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formulated for Perko for this particular application.
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All of the tools that they use to manufacturer
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Perko products are built right here on our plant.
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John: Now what he's talking about is the molds.
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To make this thing on the inside of this injection
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molding machine. You make the mold.
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You don't go out and buy them from somebody?
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Wolf: No, we build them right here.
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John: Let's talk about the locking device that
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you guys came up with for the vented fills,
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because I think this a great idea!
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And you developed the whole idea
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right here at Perko. But show us this lock.
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Wolf: Well this is our locking device
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which fits inside the fill.
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Which is a neat feature
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because the cap
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covers the locking device which prevents
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any water or
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debris getting into a lock and clogging it up.
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And it is just inserted into the fill,
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and you turn the key and it's locked up.
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John: You know with the price of gas today
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and the price of diesel fuel,
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boat tanks are becoming more and more targets for
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people to maybe siphon out some fuel.
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But that's not really why you want to get something like this.
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You want to get something like to keep water
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from a hose
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going into your fuel tank.
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Or to keep fuel from going into your potable water.
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Or to keep fuel from going into
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a holding tank or water going into a holding tank.
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A lot of deck hardware
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is made to match.
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And if you have two or three fills
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on your boat. You might have five fills
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that all look the same.
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Well you got to know which ones for which.
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If it's locked, and your the only one that has that key.
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If you lend the boat out or
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if somebody is taking care of you boat or
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something like that. There's no chance
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for anybody to kind of mess up and
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kinda screw them up.
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Hey Wolf, thank you so much
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for al the information. Hey right now
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we need to take another time out but keep it
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because when we come back we're going to be in
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the boat shop. We're going to
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break out the tools. We're going to install a lot of the
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deck hardware on the 23 foot Albury Brothers boat.
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We'll cover it, right after this!
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The tool shed is still open!
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