[Public-list] Re: New subscriber

[5thseason at canada.com]

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 10:16:57 -0700 , John Kennedy wrote:
John 
John 
Thanks for the welcome aboard.
I will try to answer your questions in short form
1 I chose 6 volt golf cart batteries for the small foot
print, high capacity (225Ahr) and cost ($50.00us).
2 There is an Atomic4 service company in Vancouver B.C that
sells the fresh water kit for 800.00cdn approx.
3 Our local Carquest auto sopply house has an attached
machine shop and did the sleaving for $120.00cdn per
cylinder.  Also had guides done and head machined all for 
less than $2,000.00
4 On my boat there were no nuts on any of the deck bolts
except at the sail track and most were loose from vibration.
 I also thought that none slip stainless nylon insert nuts
added to overhaul robustness.
5 John can I leave this until I have some measuements
available.
6 I replaced the chainplates with thicker 1/4" SS and used
the old 3/16" on the other side of each bulkhead to add
clamping surface area.

John
> 
> John: I'd have said "Welcome aboard", except that I'm not
> aboard yet! I'm
> about 6 years behind you on the planning/retiring/sailing
> schedule.
> 
> I did have questions, though.
> 
> 1	Why 6V batteries?
> 
> 2	How did you add the fresh-water cooling? Yourself or
> off-the-shelf?
> 
> 3	Where and how did you get the Atomic 4 rebuilt?
> 
> 4	Why nylon nuts on the through-bolts?
> 
> 5	How did you manage expanding to the double berth?
> 
> 6	What did you do about the chain plates?
> 
> Many thanks for your advice.
> 
> John
> 
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