[Public-List] George - hexagonal part

[Don Lang]

Hi Matt,

My boat is a post liner boat that had the liner (and everything else!) removed before I bought the vessel.
Our stuffing boxes are twins; the picture I sent you had the top nut removed and the small locking nut backed up the tube so you could see the entire assembly minus the top nut. Sorry for any confusion that may have caused, in hind sight I should 
have placed the big nut in the picture.
My picture was taken from directly above, I took the easy way in and cut a hole in the cockpit above the stuffing box, built a watertight bulkhead just forward of it and will install a hatch over it for easy access before launching.

When I removed my rudder the stock had some light corrosion on the stock just below where the packing material would contact the shaft. I would suggest A-30 owners inspect the stock from time to time and find a way to tie the stock into an anode if they aren't already.

Cheers, Don #473


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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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