[Public-List] Replacing seacock in bilge

[Michael]

it's the thru hulls that should be the target for replacement. The 
originals are just...bad. it is not clear to me you are replacing thru 
hulls here. You have found proper machine thread thru hulls to match the 
thread on the sea cocks?
  Sea cocks are sort of optimized for mounting on wood hulls, I guess 
that is where the bolts in your application come in, bolting to the back 
up plate. I just screwed my seacocks onto the thru hulls, solid back up 
plate-marine ply (doing again, I would consider coosa board), with 5200 
as the sealant. 4200 may be the smart move, I don't think epoxy is 
necessary or appropriate
I don't see a real world need to secure seacocks with bolts, but lag 
bolts to a thick plate are about as good as you are going to get, 
structurally,
The Alberg hull is really thick, and solid 'glass.
Getting the bevel angle right for flush thru hulls is the hardest part. 
Some kind of counter sink tool would be useful, in 3 sizes. I used a 
file.
Anyway, it looks to me you are proposing a lot of effort, for marginal 
gain. All that stuff just needs to be put together once.

Michael Grosh
#220

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Date 9/13/2024 10:52:30 PM
Subject [Public-List] Replacing seacock in bilge

>Hi all,
>
>I am pulling my Alberg 30 next week to replace all the seacocks. Yes, I
>still have some gate valves! I am replacing with groco flanged valves with
>backing plates. From what I have seen, it looks like most do a dry run,
>then epoxy the backing plate on with the thru hull and seacock dry fit
>(with wax to protect from the epoxy) and the the seacock and the thru hull
>are attached with sikaflex or life seal. I don't want to do this because I
>know all the bronze bolts will end up drop in the bilge. Is there any
>downside to attaching the backing plate to the seacock, epoxying the
>backing plate, with wax on the thru hull, and then removing the thru hull
>and applying sikaflex? This way, I would only have to mess with the backing
>plate and seacock once, when epoxying. Does this make sense?
>Would like to hear any suggestions.
>
>Btw, ai have a hard time replying to this list serve for some reason, but
>love reading everything.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Wade Wall
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