GordonReynolds
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Local hardware store? Any feelings on brand or material type?
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Marine Hardware makes this option. Why couldn't one connect a ball valve to this directly?
Cast from bronze with extra-sturdy wall thickness. Our pickups have a generous neck length to fit any hull and have straight pipe thread blending into tapered pipe thread at end for easy connection to piping or valves. Complete with flanged jam nut
Oh ... Not so. I need to know how to put a hole in my bronze rudder to extract the shaft. Hole saw comes to mind. Do they make hole saws for metal?
Ideas to plug the hole may be a great advantage too. And by plugging I mean a removable plug.
Yes Eric, standard bi-metal hole saws work great cutting metal. I used a 2 1/2" diameter one recently to broach a hole through a 1" steel plate.
Why not just use a zinc to plug the hole if you feel it would be that big a deal.
Yup. Lobstermen do this all the time. Cut a hole. Clamshell zinc.
Now, my question is can one do this with a fiberglass, slightly airfoiled, rudder?
Some say seacocks should be bolted to the hull, others say bolting to the backing plate is sufficient. Thoughts on that?
Good question? I'm assuming my seacock bolts are through the backing plate and then the backing plates were laminated to the inside of the hull, since the bolt heads don't appear on the outside of the hull?? I've often wondered what i would do if the bolts needed to be replaced or re-positioned.Some say seacocks should be bolted to the hull, others say bolting to the backing plate is sufficient. Thoughts on that?