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by Trevor Longcroft
Maintenance staff are only too familiar with the delays incurred while tracing air-line leakages within vehicle braking systems and also leakages from vessels used for storing or transporting other fluids such as fuel and other gases.
Complementary to the Trasonic leak-detector kit (CM December 25 19701 Trans Global Electronics have introduced the 1SA leak-detector kit which can be used safely near to or within fuel tankers or other plant and machinery used for storing, processing or transporting volatile liquids and dangerous gases.
The equipment still functions in the same manner as the previous model, is the ultrasonic sound waves which escape from a leak in a pressurized container, or waves emitted via a leak from a frequency generator within the vessel, are detected by a probe (receiver) which is moved across the tank/vessel exterior. When a leak is detected both audible and visual indications are given.
The equipment now conforms to the Department of Trade and Industries BASEEFA certificate which incorporates standards for equipment used in inflammable atmospheres. To meet this standard certain safety modifications including encapsulation of sections of the solid state circuitry and a plastic coating for the generator and receiver unit have been incorporated on the modified unit. However, the recommended trade price of £85 is still claimed to be 75 per cent cheaper than that of any comparable equipment.