[Public-List] Whitby Shop Made Through Hulls

[George Dinwiddie]

crufone at comcast.net wrote:
> How easy is it to distunguish these through hulls from the normal
> cast bronze variety?

Look at http://alberg30.org/maintenance/Plumbing/WhitbyThroughHull.html 
  I've just posted photos there.

> My boat is a 1966 model. Which through hulls
> are likely to be suspect?

It's all the half-inch ones.

> 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.

I would replace the gate valves, too.  They're brass, not bronze.  When 
I went to replace mine, one crumbled due to internal corrosion that I 
couldn't see.

  - George

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