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#16
08-17-2008, 12:18 PM
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| Hi All. my boat has chain plates with stainles steel studs. Please view the attached photo and please advise. My boat is all wood but the bolt(ss) has rusted to nothing. Fortunatly I am refitting and found this problem.  |
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#17
08-17-2008, 12:24 PM
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#18
08-17-2008, 12:40 PM
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| I am not sure when these were fitted probebly ten years or so. Not sure if one can expect stainless to do this in that period.All the other rigging is isolated from the chain plates by means of dead eyes. |
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#19
08-17-2008, 01:43 PM
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| Stainless hates places that are damp, but free of oxygen. Keel bolts, chain plates (especially through plywood bulkheads), internal structures of rudders, sometimes even propshafts in rubber cutless bearings (especially in the tropics) are all places where you need to regularly check if your are using stainless, even it it's 316 (A4) and doubly so if its 304 (A2). |
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