Seized Blakes Seacocks Question

[Poignard]

Thanks for the explanation of the copper.

As a by the way, I just noticed on the picture, that the boss which the handle locates onto is cracked. I'll need to keep an eye on that.

I'm sure the round part where the crack is, is hollow, as you would expect it to be when the cone is a casting.
That crack may well have been caused by somebody trying to free a seized cone by hammering a drift up from underneath.

 

[vyv_cox]

I'm not sure that the keep-plate comes into contact with the round boss. I don't think it does on mine. And it doesn't seem to in this one:
https://www.asap-supplies.com/blakes-seacock-402207?nosto=nosto-page-product1.

Here's mine, nearly the same age as the OP's. The keep plate coincides exactly with the mark on the original photo.

 

[Poignard]

Here's mine, nearly the same age as the OP's. The keep plate coincides exactly with the mark on the original photo.

There looks to be a gap of ca. 3mm.

 

[vyv_cox]

There looks to be a gap of ca. 3mm.

The plate sits immediately on top of the wider part of the conical part. The plate is by no means symmetrical with the cone, so some rubbing is perfectly possible. I suggest we wait until the OP reports back.

 

[Poignard]

The plate sits immediately on top of the wider part of the conical part. The plate is by no means symmetrical with the cone, so some rubbing is perfectly possible. I suggest we wait until the OP reports back.

He said it is a crack.

 

[vyv_cox]

He said it is a crack.

He said it looks like a crack in the photo.

 

[Poignard]

He said it looks like a crack in the photo.

Sorry. I must have misunderstood: "the boss which the handle locates onto is cracked."

 

[vyv_cox]

Sorry. I must have misunderstood: "the boss which the handle locates onto is cracked."

You omitted 'on the picture'.......

 

[Poignard]

You omitted 'on the picture'.......

Oh for chrissake! I am trying to help the man with some advice and I am getting a shitstorm of nit-picking pedantry for my trouble.

 

[vyv_cox]

Oh for chrissake! I am trying to help the man with some advice and I am getting a shitstorm of nit-picking pedantry for my trouble.

Are you? I must have missed that. At the moment we only know that there is a mark on a photograph. It might be a crack but it might not. Let's wait until we know.

 

[Deleted member 36384]

Oh for chrissake! I am trying to help the man with some advice and I am getting a shitstorm of nit-picking pedantry for my trouble.

Are you? I must have missed that. At the moment we only know that there is a mark on a photograph. It might be a crack but it might not. Let's wait until we know.

Thank you both for your help. I'll be up this weekend, probably on Sunday so will have a good look. I did not realise that the cone was hollow into the boss, so that makes it serious enough to check soonest.

 

[Poignard]

Thank you both for your help. I'll be up this weekend, probably on Sunday so will have a good look. I did not realise that the cone was hollow into the boss, so that makes it serious enough to check soonest.

It's always a pleasure to be able uninhibitedly to exchange advice and ideas with other boatowners.

I sincerely hope it turns out not to be a crack.