aluminum painting Re blasting aluminum, I would stay away from blasting aluminum unless that it is very thick plate, 1/4 inch or larger. It is...
Hi You may remember that I mentioned putting a trim tab on the back of the boat but said to put the pivot point up about an inch up the transom....
TollyWally, ( must be a tollycraft owner ha ha) It appears that non metallic fittings are allowed as per the specs that IKE put in his response....
Ike 24.18.1.6 says that you cannot screw a copper, brass fitting into an aluminum tank, (without a galvanic de-coupler) so I dont understand...
brass and stainless fittings in aluminum tanks To accurate twrs, Tom I was trying to find my most recent copy of the ABYC standards but must...
This I cannot help with as I have seen most angled back from the keel to the chine and some that even were reversed, ie angled up toward the...
stepped hull, and flat bottoms A stepped hull would work on a flat bottom boat. Remember that the pressure is highest about a third of the way...
BillyDoc Your experiment that gave you a value of 6000 pounds to design an English wheel is incorrect. The English Wheel works on the principle...
while you may not have had problems, why risk the liability with using brass fittings in an aluminum tank. a small leak in a GAS tank and you can...
the teflon tape will not stay in place on the thread faces, The idea around tape sealants is to seal the voids that are at the locatioin of the...
moly will be available in an additive with oil already, do not mix the powder at 2%, too much, for the oil additive, just 2% for the gears find...
We would never use wax on an aluminum sanding disc or die grinder bit, Yes certainly there is less build up but if you should get any wax on an...
look on the Interlux or awlgrip website and down load the paint instructions. Awlgrip is good, pricey, Interlux is as good, still expensive but...
molybdenum disulfide is a friction reducing additive, that will reduce the coefficient of friction between the rings and cylinder walls. (...
Gentlemen you are making this more complicated than it is I believe that we are talking about a planing hull, with a square transom, So some...
