Door Packings
Door Packing Watertight E.P.D.M. Rubber
Door Packing Watertight E.P.D.M. Rubber is a group of 50 IMPA-coded items (codes 815001–815050) under Door Packings in the Packing & Jointing section (IMPA 81). All of them are priced per lgh. Every item in the list is rubber. The list runs through 10 metric sizes from 10×6 mm to 50×5 mm.
Buying guide
Door packing is the rubber gasket strip that sits in the channel around a watertight or weathertight door or hatch, and that the knife edge or coaming presses into when the door is dogged. This group is EPDM (ethylene propylene diene monomer) rubber, black, resistant to sea water and rated from –40 °C to +70 °C, supplied in 10 m lengths in rectangular sections from 10 × 6 mm up to 50 × 35 mm.[1]
The bosun raises it when a door no longer seals or the packing has hardened, cracked or taken a permanent set.
How to specify it
Give the section width × height in mm, measured on the channel (not on the old, compressed packing), and the total length in metres rounded up to whole 10 m lengths. Tolerances are ±1.0 mm on sections of 18–30 mm and ±1.5 mm on 30–50 mm; sizes outside the listed range have to be checked for availability.[1]
Order the bonding adhesive the door maker specifies with the packing, and enough for every door being repacked.
Rules and certificates
Load Line regulation 12(1): doors in the end bulkheads of enclosed superstructures must be weathertight when closed, and the means of securing them weathertight shall consist of gaskets and clamping devices (or equivalent), permanently attached to the bulkhead or the door. The packing is the gasket that makes the door weathertight.[2]
COSWP asks for watertight doors and other closing appliances to be inspected in line with the safety management system, and for power-operated watertight doors to be treated as if in bridge-operation mode, where they reclose automatically with enough force to crush anyone in the way.[3]
Questions buyers ask
- How do I measure the size of door packing?
- Measure the width and depth of the channel the packing sits in. Old packing is compressed and gives a smaller figure; the catalogue sizes are width × height of new strip.
- Is EPDM suitable for an oil-tight door?
- The catalogue rates this EPDM packing for sea water and –40 °C to +70 °C and says nothing about oil. For a door exposed to oil, ask the supplier to confirm the rubber’s oil resistance or offer an oil-resistant grade.
Sources
Published by Sherif Awad, founder of GeoMarineHub — in ship supply since 1990, a family business since 1981 (45 years). Last checked .
At a glance
Part of Packing & Jointing (IMPA section 81): Gaskets, gland packing, jointing sheet, O-rings, oil seals and sealing tapes.
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- Items
- 50
- IMPA codes
- 815001–815050
- Priced
- per lgh
- Materials
- rubber
- Sizes
- 10×6 mm – 50×5 mm
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