€1134 for a skin fitting!!!

[Tintin]

Thinkinhlg about forward looking sonar from Echopilot.

Aluminium Ovni, I don't fancy a plastic thru hull and the bronze would be wrong.

I saw they offered an aluminium 52mm skin fitting.

Emailed and almost choked when they came back with €1134. I queried this cost and they replied that the material and manufacturing cost was expensive.

Now I know a fair bit about metals manufacturing, and it does seem to me that this is basically taking the proverbial.

 

[Sandy]

Looks like you will be using plastic. Can't see what the matter with it would be.

 

[jamie N]

They're quoting that to not get the job, aren't they?

 

[TernVI]

Plastic is good.
Even better underwater where there's less UV...

 

[stevebrassett]

Could you get a plastic one and then get it copied in aluminium?

 

[KompetentKrew]

Could you get a plastic one and then get it copied in aluminium?

I've got a lathe, I'll do it for €1133. ??

 

[Norman_E]

Be careful, aluminium is never pure, its always an alloy. I don't know what particular alloy your hull is made from, but most likely at least 90% aluminium with copper and small percentages of other metals. Different aluminium alloys are used to make plate material from those used to produce bar stock from which a skin fitting could be turned, raising the possibility of electrolytic action between the two. IMHO its safer and a lot cheaper to stick to plastic.

 

[Spirit (of Glenans)]

+1 for plastic. An aluminium boat needs great care to be taken with anything that might be attached to, or in the proximity of the underwater hull.
There havebeen a great many previous threads on here regarding plastic skinfittings and the consensus has been overwhelmingly positive.

 

[Pye_End]

As a matter of interest, what are the other skin fittings?

 

[Tintin]

As a matter of interest, what are the other skin fittings?

Bronze , plastic and aluminium

 

[Pye_End]

So is the bronze one isolated from the hull?

 

[Tintin]

So is the bronze one isolated from the hull?

Only if I isolate it

 

[john_morris_uk]

Skin fittings bah! Cheapskate. I’ll raise you a toilet.. Victory Blake Toilet

 

[Tintin]

Skin fittings bah! Cheapskate. I’ll raise you a toilet.. Victory Blake Toilet

But there's such a great choice of seats with that ??

 

[Robih]

I’ve just been quoted £850 for a seacock - the fancy fitting that is also a heat exchanger for fridge cooling......

 

[trevbouy]

Good grief that toilet. One crap a day, say 10 years life of toilet. That's £1.45 a crap !!

 

[Robih]

Good grief that toilet. One crap a day, say 10 years life of toilet. That's £1.45 a crap !!

it's a real worry that you worked that out........

 

[trevbouy]

I'm just talking crap

 

[Graham376]

Good grief that toilet. One crap a day, say 10 years life of toilet. That's £1.45 a crap !!

Did you include the extra £460 for the tool kit and service parts?

 

[Buck Turgidson]

Fitted in 1971 and still going strong. I used the bespoke tool kit to service it earlier this year. both were included when I bought the boat