[Public-List] good news and bad news

[Michael Grosh]

Your bushing plan would involve an awfully small sliver of metal that would
have to mount flush, wouldn't it?
Drilling and tapping a 5/8" bolt, then cutting, is probably the closest fit
to what you need.
I know where there is a drill press close by you.

MichaelGrosh
#220
On Feb 1, 2012 5:02 PM, "George Dinwiddie" <gdinwiddie at alberg30.org> wrote:

> I pulled the rudder shoe off of Calypso this afternoon. The good news is
> that, in spite of considerable play, the pin is in good shape. The bad news
> is that the threads are gone in the bottom of the rudder post.
>
> My first thought is to put a bushing in there. Does anyone know where I
> can get a 5/8-11 to 1/2-13 silicon bronze reducing bushing?
>
> My fallback is to go to a 5/8" pin, but that means drilling into a
> perfectly good rudder shoe. I'd rather not do that.
>
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