What is the best way to clean Blakes Seacocks

[thesaintlyone]

So removed all but one of the Blakes Seacocks came apart okay after removing the Nuts and plates holding everything in place. Only tough one is the Toilet Outlet which is proving to be a bugger to free up the cone tried a heatgun and the obligatory almighty bang with mallet.......10 years of crap literally. But tbh the plate on the outside of the hull is broken anyways so will probably remove the whole thing to fit a new plate.



What is the best way to clean the components now I have them home?

 

[eddystone]

So removed all but one of the Blakes Seacocks came apart okay after removing the Nuts and plates holding everything in place. Only tough one is the Toilet Outlet which is proving to be a bugger to free up the cone tried a heatgun and the obligatory almighty bang with mallet.......10 years of crap literally. But tbh the plate on the outside of the hull is broken anyways so will probably remove the whole thing to fit a new plate.

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I just use sandpaper , particularly to remove any pink (dezincified) bits then reseat them by rotatating back and forth with coarse then fine grinding paste; clean off the paste and apply Blakes seacock grease. Also tap them with a hammer to make sure still sound metal.

What is the best way to clean the components now I have them home?

 

[eddystone]

So removed all but one of the Blakes Seacocks came apart okay after removing the Nuts and plates holding everything in place. Only tough one is the Toilet Outlet which is proving to be a bugger to free up the cone tried a heatgun and the obligatory almighty bang with mallet.......10 years of crap literally. But tbh the plate on the outside of the hull is broken anyways so will probably remove the whole thing to fit a new plate.

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What is the best way to clean the components now I have them home?

I just use sandpaper , particularly to remove any pink (dezincified) bits then reseat them by rotatating back and forth with coarse then fine grinding paste; clean off the paste and apply Blakes seacock grease. Also tap them with a hammer to make sure still sound metal.

 

[Tranona]

Soak them in paraffin, then clean up with wet and dry before grinding paste to seat the cones. Assemble with the proper Blakes grease. Nothing difficult as they are very robust bits of kit - you could have done all this without taking them out of the boat!