New propellor shaft

[Sniper]

I need to replace my worn prop shaft - nothing very fancy, 25mm diameter, 1050 long. Has anyone any direct experience of having one machined in the Ipswich area, or is my best bet T. Norris Marine?

 

[Daverw]

T Norris every time

 

[Tomahawk]

A prop shaft is a very simple thing.
Just a bit of SS round bar with a taper & key slot at one end and possibly a thread at t'other. Any decent small engineering workshop should be able to cut a taper.

 

[Old Harry]

Davey Engineering 01473 255575

or his brother
Name.r Davey Engineering
Address:
17 Farthing Rd
Postcode/City:
IP1 5AP Ipswich
County:
Suffolk England
Phone:
01473 463366

Fax:
01473 463366

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[ex-Gladys]

All very well recommending T. Norris but if you do you need to know the taper... If you don't best to use a local engineer... I've had to have two shafts in my ownership, the first was when I got the boat, and it was bent... The second (at the yard's cost) was because they bent the shaft by having the strop under the shaft....

 

[Daverw]

Agree that it’s a simple engineering job but i had two mates in the last few months get quotes locally that were 3 times the cost of T Norris, I changed mine 2 years ago and found the same. The tapers are standard so just need to tell them metric or imperial from my experience when speaking to them. They have just supplied a 1100mm shaft for my mate for £180 delivered, he was unsure of his measurements so hu just cut the taper off and sent it to them.

 

[davidej]

I got mine from D C Marine - a few miles south of Norwich.

Excellent service and very competitive pricing.

 

[PeterWright]

I'm afraid that, although tapers are standard the standard differs depending where the shaft last had a new prop fitted. The metric standard is 1:10, fairly universally, but the " imperial" standard differs in N. America (1:16) and UK (1:12). While this summary serves for yacht sized shafts, things vary again for shafts over 6" diameter.

If I were in Ipswich, I would go for one of the Davey family, ideally leaving the old shaft and the prop with them.

Peter.

 

[matthewriches]

I had a new one done by DC Engineering, Norwich way. Chopped end off old shaft, told them the overall length with a double taper and it arrived 4 days later.

 

[davidej]

I got mine from D C Marine - a few miles south of Norwich.

Excellent service and very competitive pricing.

I had a new one done by DC Engineering, Norwich way. Chopped end off old shaft, told them the overall length with a double taper and it arrived 4 days later.

I think these are one and the same

 

[Sniper]

Thanks all for the suggestions. At the moment I may have tracked down a used but good condition replacement from a local marine engineer but good to have ideas if this doesn’t work out.

 

[oldgit]

Shaft No 1
Used Norris and they did a fine job..but they insisted on having old shaft which I delivered, cost me best part of day fighting my way through London plus the fuel.
They charged me an additional £35.00 + vat to straighten my old shaft so they could "check" the taper then charged me £35.00 +VAT for P&P to get it back..........then overcharged for the whole job into the bargain.
10 days to complete job, they were "busy" apparently.
Shaft No2
Used a local engineering shop at Otterham Quay nr Gillingham. Kent , They charged me £ 140.00 all in inc VAT to do exactly the same job and took half a day to do it when I supplied the shaft.
The prices were for a 1.5" shaft.
Needed a hole for a roll pin at one end and machining the taper/woodruff slot/key and nut thread at the other.

 

[Amour]

I had two made by Eye tech engineering Langton green Eye Suffolk .