What is it called?

[gert]

The metal thing bolted to the keel / deadwood that the cutlass bearing sits in; and where can you buy them; or would it be easier to have one cast? (I do have a foundry a few blocks from me) This is on a double ender and needs to be at an angle.

[Ken Hutchins]

cast it

[redbopeep]

Stern bearing housing. Just had to replace ours because it was pink :(

Buck Algonquin has them.

Regarding angle...the surface of the sternpost/deadwood is typically perpendicular to the stern bearing housing...but that surface is also at a 7 degree down angle to the waterline of our boat. You can shave the wood to the correct angle if it is a small angle as our is.

Good luck.

P.S. Don't know why you'd cast it unless you have a really strange set up. The interior has to be right for your cutlass bearing fit. Easier to buy the housing. If you need an angle, you can easily have a bronze plate made to get that angle w/o shaving wood off your boat.

[kc8pql]

Hamilton Marine

[JimConlin]

If it's bolted to the back of a keel/sternpost, it's a stern bearing.
If it holds a bearing away from the keel or bottom, it's a strut.
Some funny walks are also struts.

[gert]

I can't find this thing any where! I live in the centre of the sailing universe but ya better be plastic and have a transome!:mad: And you better not like bronze either:eek:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2222/2489656427_d73d7c9340_m.jpg

This is exactly the set up I need.

Am I frustrated? Yes! This is a lack of planning on my part; I ASSUMED because of where I live, boat things would be easy to find; well they are, if you own a Bayliner or McGregor!

[htom]

That is not a strut. It's something from Buck Algonquin's drivetrain (http://www.buckalgonquin.com/pages/ProductPages/drivetrain/drivetrain.html) catalog, even if not from them.

[Keith Wilson]

That setup looks like a standard part from the catalog htom referenced.
http://www.buckalgonquin.com/pages/ProductPages/drivetrain/Albin_tube_page.html

http://store.hamiltonmarine.com/prodimg/BKA-00STBR.JPG

http://www.buckalgonquin.com/images/albin_tube.jpg

[kc8pql]

http://store.hamiltonmarine.com/browse.cfm/4,12637.html

1" thru 2 1/2" shaft dia. available.

http://store.hamiltonmarine.com/prodimg/BKA-00STBR.JPG

[gert]

ps: 3/4" shaft d.

Well by the looks of that site our shaft will be 7/8'

Thank you very much.:)

Why are they "internaly threaded"?

[Lew Barrett]

I was going to mention Buck, but Htom beat me to it. Still made in the USA, too.

[kc8pql]

ps: Why are they "internaly threaded"?

You're looking at stuffing boxes ("stern tube packing boxes"). They go inside the boat and seal around the shaft to keep the water out. Stern bearing housings go in the outside and house the cutlass bearing. You need both.

[gert]

Stern bearing housings go in the outside and house the cutlass bearing.

I know this; but it states they "are internaly threaded" (for what?) I found one in N.Van; I'm gonna go look at it on Saturday, then I can ask the dealer.

I am still going to contact my foundry see what they want. I have used them before; if you make your own pattern they are not that pricy. Then I just take it to the machine shop across the street at work and have it drilled for the bearing.

The problem with the Buck unit is I have to go to a larger shaft (7/8) than the 3/4 I had planned.

I needed to see the drawing on the unit, to get my head around it; that's what this exercise was about; plus I have not yet learned where to shop in this corner of the backwoods;)

Thanks all

[kc8pql]

In the B.A. catalog it's the stuffing box description that says internally threaded. At least that's the only place I see that description and the only place it would make sense unless they're talking about threading the pilot to screw into a stern tube.

http://www.buckalgonquin.com/images/sterntubepb.gif

[ron ll]

Just another picture for you. The arrows were for a question I had in another thread. (The barnacles have long since met their demise).

http://www.ronlloyd.com/oddstuff/flange.jpg

[gert]

http://www.buckalgonquin.com/images/stern_bearing_page.jpg

[BETTY-B]

Gert,
Do you know where Martin Marine is, a block or so up from the passenger ferry in North Van? Although it looks like Bayliner accessory palace out front, in back there are.... well, it's a secret! If the exact one isnt there, you'll poop your pantyhose with glee none the less... All bought from Doc Freeman in the fifties I might add. That's all I'm a sayin'....

DAN

[gert]

I know Martin's :) I didn't think they would have "drive train" stuff

probably the best "candy store" in town

I'm going to Marisol Marine in N.Van any way so I may as well go there too.

While I'm over there I think I'll drop in at Jolly Food too and get some Danish liver pate and a pork roast.:D Best Danish Deli in the PNW. Everything is made on site.

[BETTY-B]

probably the best "candy store" in town


In town? I would say it is most likely the last in the entire world.:eek:

I need to get up there.

DAN

[gert]

I am going to make my own.
My foundry quoted $45 for the blank.
Can I assume the square holes in the above unit is for water circulation
and they are just forward of the cutlass bearing?
I will buy the cutlass bearing I want before the unit get's machined.

O happy day:)