[Public-List] Updated Rudder Shoe/Gudgeon List

[brooks.glenn at comcast.net]

Hey Peter, 


Please add my name also to the shoe list., Probably should have both grudon and shoe for future repair. 


Great work BTW. Hope this over tax your regular work at the foundry! 


Glenn Dolce 318 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter McEvoy" <peter.t.mcevoy at gmail.com> 
To: public-list at lists.alberg30.org 
Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2012 5:59:43 PM 
Subject: [Public-List] Updated Rudder Shoe/Gudgeon List 

Hi Everybody, 

Wow, quite a bit of interest in this. I expect more people to chime in yet, 
but here is an updated list anyway. I'll try to get a quote next week. I 
like the idea of casting the shoes without holes drilled. It would also 
make sense to have the shoe aperture (for the rudder pin) at the original 
1/2", and people can drill it out if they prefer a 5/8" pin or whatever. 

Another consideration for having a mold made is the shrinkage of the bronze 
after casting- 3/16" per lineal foot, or around 2%. That means the mold 
should be 2% BIGGER than your final piece. I doubt this will make a 
difference for our rudder shoe, but somebody please say something if you 
think otherwise. 

Ceramic shell would be the easiest to do (at least for my situation) and 
will give a cleaner final product than sand casting. I'd give a rough 
estimate that the shoe castings will come out to roughly 5 pounds of bronze 
each (Assuming about 1/4" thickness and an area of 50in^2 plus the solid 
"head" of the shoe, with the bronze weight being .3 lb/in^3). Bronze is 
currently running around $5.00/lb, so that would be around $25 per shoe for 
just the metal. As for the gudgeons, one pair would likely be in the same 
range as one shoe. Foundries probably charge somewhere around $15 per pound 
depending on the work involved, but I would try to do this on my own to 
save money. 

Still waiting to hear if anybody has gudgeon dimensions or originals- can't 
do much without that! 

The List: 

Rudder Shoe: 
Bill Ydel - wcydel at gmail.com 
Mike Lehman - sail_505 at hotmail.comJeff Fongemie - fongemie at gmail.com 
Brian Curry - brian_curry at hotmail.com 
David Mitchell - david at mitchellent.com 
Peter McEvoy - peter.t.mcevoy at gmail.com 
Jim Allocco - jamesallocco at gmail.com 
James Almond - okeebc at gmail.com 
Clayton Zimmerman - cb_zimmerman at hotmail.com 
Jon Budington - jon at globalprinting.com 
Jason ssteen - mpcylinderheads at gmail.com 
Don Lang - potatosailor at yahoo.com 
Gordon White - gewhite at crosslink.net 
Chuck Thomas - thomascwcj at bellsouth.net 
Mark Dietrich - mrkdtrch at yahoo.com 

Gudgeon Sets: 
Glenn Brooks - brooks.glenn at comcast.net 
David Mitchell - david at mitchellent.com 
Michael Connolly #133 - crufone at comcast.net 
Peter McEvoy - peter.t.mcevoy at gmail.com 
James Almond - okeebc at gmail.com 
Clayton Zimmerman - cb_zimmerman at hotmail.com 
Jason ssteen - mpcylinderheads at gmail.com (Interested in the two part 
gudgeon and pintle version) 
Don Lang - potatosailor at yahoo.com 
Gordon White - gewhite at crosslink.net 
Chuck Thomas - thomascwcj at bellsouth.net 
Mark Dietrich - mrkdtrch at yahoo.com 


-Peter 
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