[Public-List] George - hexagonal part

[vmarmei]

Man.....
If you see two large hex nuts...that is the stuffing box....One nut 
is the pressure nut and the other is the locking nut.
You need two same size wrenches cut out from 1/4 inch plate to 
tighten the pressure nut and then lock the other one in place. This 
you do through the back hatch or send a small person into the locker.
William @ A30

At 03:54 PM 16/06/2010, you wrote:
>That hexagonal part is what I was presuming to be the top of a stuffing
>box?  I really do not know what it is.  Here, I have added a more revealing
>angle http://s969.photobucket.com/albums/ae174/MattRHay/ There are two nuts
>one thin hexagonal one which is beneath the top big thick hexagonal one and
>they are tightened together.  If you can blow up the new photo that I added
>you will see what I mean.  This is why I am so confused.  It does not appear
>to be a traditional stuffing box, and there is no tube in sight?  Perhaps,
>the tube has been long gone since before I bought the boat?  Or perhaps this
>is some strange stuffing box created by someone before I owned the boat?
>The one thing I do know is that it is not working and is corroding the hell
>out of my bronze tiller post.  Don Lang sent me pictures of his (pre-liner)
>stuffing box with top nut removed and it does not seem to resemble my
>strange contraption.  I am going to have to cut an access panel from one of
>the cockpit lockers and see if I can get a wrench around it and start the
>removal of the rudder.  I am thinking, as Don also pointed out to me, that
>if I remove that big hexagonal nut I will see were the corrosion started and
>probably find that it continues down through the nuts.   I will keep a photo
>journal if I have any immediate success worth recording.  I always new this
>particular Alberg was extra special!
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