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• New exterior chainplates... what choices do I have?
  • 316L is the most economical choice.
    • Good suggestions. I'd add a couple of things
      • I gotta agree hunnerd percent with Dan. One caveat....
        • Mirror polishing enhances fatigue resistance
    • Stainless and bronze may have the same properties, size-wise...
      • Any chance.....
        • Let me look - I was trying to attach an image of it but without success...
          • More info...
            • Can you send it direct, off board?
              • Greg do you have a source of material?
                • I looked at....
                  • There are a lot of different types of silicone bronze
                    • THANKS D'Arcy
                • Gene, also just found....
                  • BTW totally aside... Greg just saw a great bilge pump idea in GOB... 2003
                    • Thanks, It has
                      • Yeah my bilge is so deep that I barely reach the bottom...
                      • Can you tell us the gist of it?
                        • The short story
                          • Thanks, Greg
                            • It was that "teak thing" that I was contemplating...
    • Back when I made bronze chainplates for my boat project...
      • Opps misunderstanding there...
    • No difference in this app between 316 and 316L...
  • Titanium....
    • Expensive...
      • Price.....
        • forensic guess analysis
          • Great info....
            • Torque wrenches are cheaper than broken chainplates or overboard masts
              • Access is the issue...
                • I've heard about that.
                • The chainplates on my Tartan 26 project boat....
                  • Of all the chainplate systems you see on modern boats ....
                    • do you know of any pics of the arrangement you mean? Thanks!
                      • No pics, sorry. You just have to visit a new Bene at a boat show
                    • I felt the same way when I saw the config. Beautiful in it's simplicity.