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[LadyInBed]

Capitanary is now in a portacabin, Showers are in block near visitors pontoon- Free and hot.
I'm stuck on the drying slipway, I replaced cutlass bearing and got the propshaft thread distorted because the hub puller wasn't centered when I pulled the prop!
The nut won't go on now without cross threading.
I could be here some time!!!

 

[Iliade]

Very careful use of a triangular file may save the day. If in doubt get a local technician on the case.

 

[LadyInBed]

Very careful use of a triangular file may save the day. If in doubt get a local technician on the case.

Both options under consideration, One problem is finding somewhere to buy a triangular file, no one here seems to cater for DIY!

 

[sailorman]

Both options under consideration, One problem is finding somewhere to buy a triangular file, no one here seems to cater for DIY!

Carrefor have tools

 

[Sailfree]

Both options under consideration, One problem is finding somewhere to buy a triangular file, no one here seems to cater for DIY!

Small hacksaw can be used to rectify damaged threads.

 

[john_morris_uk]

Small hacksaw can be used to rectify damaged threads.

If you can find an engineering shop you can buy a 'thread chaser' or sometimes called a 'thread restorer'. Eight different pitches of thread on one tool for rectifying exactly the predicament you are in.

Something like: http://buy1.snapon.com/catalog/item.asp?item_ID=651967&group_ID=675361

 

[fireball]

you'll probably need a new olive whilst you're there ...

do you intend to do all your maintenance in Cherbourg?

 

[robp]

Both options under consideration, One problem is finding somewhere to buy a triangular file, no one here seems to cater for DIY!

Seem to remember the Fishermans co-operative, (opp supermarket) having tools such as that?

 

[chanelyacht]

Seem to remember the Fishermans co-operative, (opp supermarket) having tools such as that?

If not, Mr-Bricolage have a store in Cherbourg...

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

you'll probably need a new olive whilst you're there ...

do you intend to do all your maintenance in Cherbourg?

Hah!.... I remember that.... fabricating a diesel return pipe at 2am if I remember correctly!

 

[LadyInBed]

Problem (what problem!) now sorted.
Cherbourg is a DIY desert, had to go out to Tournaville to a Bricodepot - same as B&Q to buy a triangular file. Sophisticated tools such as taps & dies for what is probably a 20mm D Whitworth thread stand no chance of being found, let alone me explaining in pigeon french what I'm after!
Accastill Diffusion were very helpful lending me a prop end boss to test for size, which I used to confirm that I had filed all the distortion out of the prop thread.
When it went on smoothly, I tried mine, which I had scraped away the cross in the thread. Mine now went on but it was still very tight on the thread, so I bought the one that the chandler had lent me.
I will head for Poole Thursday, even though there isn't much wind forecast, before the northerly sets in on Friday and makes for a miserable crossing.