What are they called, and where can I get 'em?

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What are they called, and where can I get \'em?

The small round stainless plates, that you screw onto teak decks, and they have a threaded centre section for screwing an eye bolt into. They're often on the bathing platform for strapping the tender down.

I've spent ages searching internet fastener suppliers and can't find 'em.

thx
 
Re: What are they called, and where can I get \'em?

Yep, that's the kind of thing, but the ones i'm after are smaller dia, about 2" or so. Still can't find them even now I know they're called removable pad eye bases, so I guess i'll ring Princess as they must have fitted them originally.
 
Re: What are they called, and where can I get \'em?

I know the ones you mean.
Princess at Swanwick fitted some for me.
I think you will find that they come in two parts - the bit that goes in the deck and the bit that screws in (the actual ring).
I had two sets fitted - one for the bathing platform and one set on the FB. I have to move the rings from one place to the other so that makes me think that they are sold separately.

Please will you post here if you find them - I ought to get some spare ones in case of the inevitable.
 
Re: What are they called, and where can I get \'em?

Any luck? I couldn't find any i liked so had some custom made for the last boat and have just done same for new boat. Turned from 316 ss 50mm bar. also I wanted them water sealed, so like an upside down top-hat with a blind (hence waterproof) M12 tapped hole, and I wanted the screw-in eye to have a 2mm dia hole down the middle of the threaded part so it didn't hydraulically lock if the tapped hole was full of water. When you decide on all that you have to have them custom made.

Quite a lot of the off-the-shelf jobs (eg Jimmy's link) don't even say whether they're sealed or whether the tapped hole goes right thru. Also a lot of the catalogue ones have chamfered shoulders (again see Jimmy's link) becuase they're intended to be screwed on the deck surface, proud, whereas with custome making you can have straight sides and a small chamfer for sinking flush into the deck
 
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I couldn't find any i liked so had some custom made for the last boat and have just done same for new boat. Turned from 316 ss 50mm bar. also I wanted them water sealed, so like an upside down top-hat with a blind (hence waterproof) M12 tapped hole, and I wanted the screw-in eye to have a 2mm dia hole down the middle of the threaded part so it didn't hydraulically lock if the tapped hole was full of water.

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Phew!

Do you keep a separate index to all that stuff in your head to allow random access, or does the discontinuous nature of the forum give you time for serial to give acceptable response times?

I'm still pondering what is a hydraulic lock and why a 2mm hole, why not a 3.17mm hole?

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Re: What are they called, and where can I get \'em?

Ha! The forum is very random, so serial, 4800 baud, is fine :-)

If you screw an M12 stud into a blind tapped hole full of water, for the first few turns the water leaks out of the thread. But after 4 or 5 turns it doesn't, at least not fast enough, so the bolt screws up tight/bottoms onto compressed water. Much of the strength in a pad eye comes from the collar/shoulder of the screw-in piece sitting flat onto the face fo the deck fitting. And on the bathing platform, these things are always full of water! So you need the hole!

Ask Burgundy Ben - he'll back me up :-)

Anyway, get back to your main job - finding a boat to buy! I was berthed next to a Targa 48 for the weekend (called Essex Girl - anyone?) and was reminded what classic lookers those boats are
 
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Anyway, get back to your main job - finding a boat to buy!

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Ha, only the small matter of scraping a living keeps me away from it... though a glimmer of some new business today could boost my boat budget, hurray!

Did you know you were late to the oak and brown leather party, and you didn't even get the hull done in off-cream to go with it, there is a 2007 T52GT that was there first.

OK, now do the bit where you calmly reply, telling me the hull number, which engines it has, the nationality of the buyer and the Pantone number for the hull colour /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
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