Seastoke
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rail is around 30mm , i cant find one any where , it could be one for Mr googler. help .
stainless steel pulpit rail burgee pole
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Plum
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Here is the holder for your 30mm rail FLAGPOLE HOLDER Stainless Steel for Boat Yacht Sailing Flag Pole 30mm FLAGH30 8033137122125 | eBay
www.solocoastalsailing.co.uk
www.solocoastalsailing.co.uk
paul salliss
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SHERIDAN marine sell a quality item
BruceK
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What burgee? You haven't earned your pirate wings yet
Seastoke
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I have a array , it for the one with my family crest on.
Jamie Dundee
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Seastoke
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I need 30/32 MM rail.
rogerthebodger
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The pipe is most likely be 32 rather than 30 as 32mm is the old 1 1/4"
Have look at the various pipe clamps available both in plastic and stainless.
If you want some nice shiny stainless steel it will cost due to the polishing
A cheap and crude way would be to use 2 stainless steel worm drive clips interconnected.
pvb
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Can't see any reason why it wouldn't be 30mm - this is a standard tubing size for European boats.
The holder linked to in post 2 is a bit cheaper here - Stainless Steel Flagpole Holder | Float Your Boat
The holder linked to in post 2 is a bit cheaper here - Stainless Steel Flagpole Holder | Float Your Boat
Jamie Dundee
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I know, that’s why I said ‘the smaller size’.
rogerthebodger
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Well it does depend on what type of tube that is used.
It could either be scheduled tube (gas tube of solid drawn tube) This is normally specified by internal (bore) diameter but has a standard O/D to allow threading with a standard thread of either BSP or NPT.
The most common tube for pull/push pits is what is called cold rolled and welded tube.
This is 2 UK suppliers of welded tube.
Stainless Steel tubes - seamless and welded tube
These tube sizes are mainly inch sizes which are converted nominally to metric (1 1/4" - 31.8mm ) becoming 32mm not 30mm
1 " = 25.4mm becoming 25mm.
This type of tube is normally 1.5 or 2 mm thick but as can be seel can be thicker.
I now generally use rectangular tube for structural steel work. Having used RHS to build a new jetty at my condo so I can moor my speed boat outside my holiday home.
Equally metal warehouse have all the sized in inches converted to metric.
Stainless Steel Tube | Stainless Steel Pipe | Metals Warehouse
Like most places in the world these days out polished stainless steel tube comes from china rather than locally made.
Something like the first 10 years of my working like was working for Tube Investments which had almost all tube manufacturing in the UK from cold formed welded steel tube at tube products in washington county Durham to Accles and Pollocks in Oldbury west midlands and gas storage cylinders for CO2, Argon, Oxygen , acetylene, etc at Chesterfield tube in well Chesterfield. My main function was designing machines for making and forming tubes .
I would recommend the OP to measure the diameter of this pulpit before he commits to a fitting.
Of course tube can be made in 30mm O/D but what wall thickness. Its not normally used in this kind of fabrication more likely in instrumentation piping or for hydraulic pipe work to match compression fittings used in that industry.
pvb
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It's interesting that the flagstaff fitting linked to in posts 2 and 9 is designed for 30mm tube. Maybe they know something?
rogerthebodger
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It's interesting that the flagstaff fitting linked to in posts 2 and 9 is designed for 30mm tube. Maybe they know something?
Or may be not as have I have already shown 30mm O/D is NOT a standard size tube mostly used for boat handrails.
As a bodge a 30mm I/D fitting will clamp onto 32 mm O/D tube
TK Blue MAX
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( Accles and Pollocks in Oldbury west midlands .)
A bit of a drift, but with you working at Accles, could you confirm a story my dad told me when i was small, that a American firm claimed to have made the worlds smallest tube and sent accles and pollocks a sample which they sent back. when the American's questioned why it had being returned, accles replied , look inside your tube, and there was a smaller tube inside the american "worlds smallest tube".
I've always wondered if this was true, or just a tall story.
A bit of a drift, but with you working at Accles, could you confirm a story my dad told me when i was small, that a American firm claimed to have made the worlds smallest tube and sent accles and pollocks a sample which they sent back. when the American's questioned why it had being returned, accles replied , look inside your tube, and there was a smaller tube inside the american "worlds smallest tube".
I've always wondered if this was true, or just a tall story.
pvb
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Maybe not in South Africa, but here in the UK 30mm is a standard size. Seascrew, who have a wide range of handrail fittings, sell fittings for 22mm, 25mm and 30mm tube.
BOAT STAINLESS DECK RAIL TUBE AND FITTING.
rogerthebodger
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Yes that is a true story. I actually meet the guy who make the smallest tube in the world. In fact there was 3 tubes inside the american's tube.
This wa back in the mid 1970's but probably smaller ones have been made using different techniques
If I remember correctly that a diamond die was used to draw down the smallest tube pulling it through the die by hand.
rogerthebodger
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OK so serewfix show 30mm fittings but don't seem to have 30mm tube just the fittings.
I note there is 30mm by 3 mm wall thickness solid drawn tube, I use cold formed welded tube but whatever is available.
22mm is in effect 7/8" 25mm is very close to 1" 25.4mm
I use 38mm o/d cold formed welded tube wall thickness 1.5 mm supplied from china which comes already polished to a high standard.
But to a point its whatever the size tube the OP's pulpit is made from not what is available in UK, RSA
If I was in the UK I would not buy tube from screwfix but from a stainless steel stockholder as I do in South Africa.
Durban being on the coast with all the salt and humidity most quality handrails are from stainless steel so we have lots of suppliers.
I really don't see what he issue is and why you keep questioning my posts ?
pvb
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rogerthebodger
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Seascrew, not Screwfix. There's a world of difference!
Is there , it's all screwy to me and anyway I tend to buy direct from china of a local agent or more likely make what ever I need myself because I can and I know some cannot and have to pay lots of money for what they want.
