[Public-List] Whitby Shop Made Through Hulls

[Gordon Laco]

The easiest way to tell is from the outside.  The through-hull's exterior
flange should be milled from the same bronze as the shank.  If you can see
that the shank is a separate component, you must replace the fitting.

Gord SURPRISE


On 4/13/09 8:46 AM, "crufone at comcast.net" <crufone at comcast.net> wrote

> 

Hello, 



How easy is it to distunguish these through hulls from the normal
> cast bronze variety?  My boat is a 1966 model. Which through hulls are likely
> to be suspect?  Even though none of them are leaking, I was thinking of
> removing the through hulls and just rebedding them.  Mine is a fresh water
> boat so I expected this to be a good way to proceed.  My original gate valves
> all work fine, don't leak and none are frozen with corrosion. After rebedding
> the through hulls I was planning on inspecting and perhaps repacking the gate
> valve stems and refitting them back in place. 



Hummmmmmmmmm  should I be
> thinking differently? 



Michael
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