[Public-List] Launching 148

[Roger L. Kingsland]

John,

I think mine is 7/8".

Roger


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Just a little bit off topic...I just joined this thread and may have missed
it...but could someone tell me the diameter of the shaft....???
 

> Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 08:19:03 -0400
> From: mahseer at kos.net
> To: public-list at lists.alberg30.org
> Subject: Re: [Public-List] Launching 148
> 
> On my shaft I have a anode bolted just in front of the stuffing box as
> well as a dimpled shaft.
> 
> John Boor
> MAHSEER #380
> 
> > Roger,
> >
> > That will make an entertaining chapter the your memoirs, no doubt!
> >
> > That slipped shaft/rudder jam scenario is why I drilled dimples in the
> > shaft for the safety-wired setscrews and have a worm-drive hose clamp
> > permanently installed on the shaft just in front of the stuffing box.
The
> > shaft/coupling joint seems to be the weakest point in the system
> > transmitting reverse thrust loading to the hull. And no situation, much
> > less one bad enough to require backing down hard, will be much improved
by
> > having the shaft part ways with the rest of the boat.
> >
> > I'm curious about what measures or precautions others have used.
> >
> > Rick Leach
> > Sugar Magnolia, #121
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