Keel question

[ozjett]

just wondering if anybody thinks this keel is worth saving or I should just get a new one made http://www.ozjett.com/hartley/keel.jpg

[JimJ]

By the looks of that one, I would scrap it and get another made.

I will ask a few questions around the Hartley Association to see is there are any centreboards out there looking for a home.

Jim

[Bob Smalser]

The original is so far gone it'd be easier to make a new one than to splice in fresh steel.

Not much to it....just 3/8 or 1/2 mild steel plate, usually ungalvanized and coated with coal tar epoxy.

If I were gonna make a new one, I'd buy T1 steel plate used in dump truck beds...not that much more expensive but better hardness and corrosion resistance without the higher expense of other steel formulations.

The old CB for a pattern, a new plate of T1, my old Victor Journeyman torch and a large mill file to clean up the edges would be a half day's work to the first coat of phosphate treatment before epoxy primer.

[ 12-28-2004, 12:10 PM: Message edited by: Bob Smalser ]

[ozjett]

Thanks guys you have comfirmed what I was thinking seems Like a lot less work as well