scoutabout
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I know a pic would help - so I'll get one if necessary.
I'm replacing the wooden inserts to the transom on my 14 ft aluminum Springbok boat. There are inner and outer wooden pieces which sandwhich the aluminum transom. The inner piece of wood is fastened with a series of what looks like screws with machine-fine threads. These pass from the rear of the boat through the aluminum skin and forward through the inner transom plywood and are held by what looks like special washers that have been snipped at regular intervals all around their circumference and the edges bent over so as to create teeth that pull into the wood as the screw is tightened.
There are no nuts, just these "barbed" washers so to speak. Actually, the screws serve to hold the carrying handles on the rear of the boat as well, passing through the handle, aluminum transom skin, then the plywood.
Of course they are all rusted solid on this 40 plus year old boat so they just spun in the rotten wood and I had to chisel the inserts away around the screws then cut them.
Long story, longer...do they still make these and where could I find them (assuming anyone can figure out what the flip I am talking about...:facepalm:
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I'm replacing the wooden inserts to the transom on my 14 ft aluminum Springbok boat. There are inner and outer wooden pieces which sandwhich the aluminum transom. The inner piece of wood is fastened with a series of what looks like screws with machine-fine threads. These pass from the rear of the boat through the aluminum skin and forward through the inner transom plywood and are held by what looks like special washers that have been snipped at regular intervals all around their circumference and the edges bent over so as to create teeth that pull into the wood as the screw is tightened.
There are no nuts, just these "barbed" washers so to speak. Actually, the screws serve to hold the carrying handles on the rear of the boat as well, passing through the handle, aluminum transom skin, then the plywood.
Of course they are all rusted solid on this 40 plus year old boat so they just spun in the rotten wood and I had to chisel the inserts away around the screws then cut them.
Long story, longer...do they still make these and where could I find them (assuming anyone can figure out what the flip I am talking about...:facepalm:
)
