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james power might be the best short of someone who did this with v1 flybridge.

mike,

i have spares on boat but it's in stuart and we won't be there for another month. let me know if you haven't gotten by then.

just a thought. could could cobble together a short piece of hose to go over cooler end then a piece of pvc, pvc end cap, pvc reducer then straight hose to pump/pipe?

go with what you took out. i'd orient the gasket to line up with the "bridge" on the stern cap, if that's the issue with the 10 degrees.

good luck.

hi andrew,

to be honest it was a long time ago. i just remember the tapered o-ring, so i'm guessing they made 2 versions and our boat had the version in the lower diagram. what did you remove when you disassembled?

hi,

i did this a couple of times a ways back. as i recall there was only a tapered o-ring which made the seal. trick was to get the o-ring to stay in place while you line up the correct orientation of the core with the end caps.

i had been told the same on the length of the pickup. the idea being the genset feed was longer and therefore you could never get to the point of transferring so much the genset would run dry. well years ago it happened to us. i transferred too much and genset wouldn't start. now we're hull 23, so m...

mac,

not sure which stop. the one on the inside lower right? if so, i got a rubber chair bottom cup.

we're not on boat for another 2 months but will photo if you're still looking.

i think the 85 is tough. as discussed so much here, a lot depends on getting the hot air away from the evaporator/compressor. we just installed a vitrofrigo on our other boat. one day we came down and inside of boat was 94. fridge temp was 44. i installed 4" fan to exhaust compressor compartmen...

hi mac,

is this it? if so, it's backordered. call they maybe able to give you an eta.

https://www.defender.com/product.jsp?path=-1&id=7881437

good thing you're thin....getting back there to get at nuts will be a bear

hi mac,

i used wd-40 gel lube. nothing specific about it, i just had it on hand.

we had the hatch open again yesterday and it release again by hand, so it does seem to have made an improvement.

hi all, first, all in this post applies to the bomar hatches on our mainship, not our pdq but i think they are similar. i unscrewed the barrel to lube the threads. i noticed that there is a rubber sleeve on the rod which gets compressed into the tube that the rod slides into. i lubed the threads and...

mac,

on our mainship i've resorted to using a small pair of channel locks to undo when bound tight. we're on the mainship this week, i'll experiment with lube and report back.

btw, my initial confusion was the same as alan's.

hi mac, i wasn't following this until i saw you pics. i assume that you're trying to eliminate the "binding" or sticking in the screw sleeve that occurs when the hatches are loaded. the dilemma is to lube the twist thread without getting lube on the shaft which might lead to slippage. we'v...

always the contrariin (is that a word?), we drive from the inside a lot and would only give it up if it could be a dual use seat.