[Public-List] Stuffing Box Wrenched

Winslow Ayer 135sleddinghill at gmail.com
Sat Jul 27 15:37:01 PDT 2024


Like the Gordon Lightfoot line…


> On Jul 27, 2024, at 1:59 PM, Gordon Laco via Public-List <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
> 
> Haha not ‘scat’…. Scar.  
> 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Jul 27, 2024, at 1:44 PM, Gordon Laco <mainstay at csolve.net> wrote:
>> 
>> I use a pair of channel lock pliers I keep aboard for the purpose of adjusting the stuffing box nuts.  
>> 
>> They seem to grip quite well enough not to scat the bronze and they jaws are slender enough getting them on is not difficult
>> 
>> Gord
>> #426 Surprise at anchor in the Lee of Christian Island
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On Jul 27, 2024, at 12:49 PM, George Dinwiddie via Public-List <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I do, Mike. They're a little heavy and clunky, but they work. They're the open-end part of some Harbor Freight big wrenches.
>>> 
>>> https://alberg30.org/maintenance/MechanicalPropulsion/StuffingBoxWrenches/adaptedWrenches.html
>>> 
>>> - George
>>> 
>>>>> On 7/27/24 9:02 AM, Mike Meinhold via Public-List wrote:
>>>> Dies anyone in the Annapolis area have a set of stuffing box wrenches I can
>>>> borrow?  I can’t recall the dimensions but I know they are large and
>>>> different.
>>>> I think I gave mine away when I sold my Atomic 4
>>>> Mike
>>>> Rinn Duin 272
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