Russ, it is my belief that the idea behind any torque spec is that it is applied when no "pull in" stress is being applied. Does it matter too much for keel bolt? I don't know. 2 the 8 of mine are under the mast so I'm not going to torque the bolts very often but when I do it will be as "proper" as possible.
Josh Muckley S/V Sea Hawk 1989 C&C 37+ Solomons, MD On Sun, Feb 10, 2019, 2:16 AM Russ & Melody via CnC-List < cnc-list@cnc-list.com wrote: > > I've always wondered why there is an insistence amongst some East Coast > members to retorque keel-bolts on the hard. > > On the Left Coast the boats are out of the water for only a day or three > and it seems too valuable to do something as mundane as resetting keel nuts! > > check the chart: > https://www.engineersedge.com/hardware/torque_vs_tension_bolts_13355.htm > one bolt will hold at least three or more keels to the bottom. > > Has there been bad experience torgue'ng keelbolts while floating? > > Cheers, Russ > ex-* Sweet *35 mk-1 > > > > At 11:00 AM 2/7/2019, you wrote: > > Content-Language: en-US > Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > > boundary="_000_26b9b433ef9c44e2a3bbced895c96553NSCDAG306baadssagov_" > > Even more so when you loosen them! > > > You asked if there was anything you were missing. A critical step is to > be on the hard when you torque the bolts. > > Josh Muckley > S/V Sea Hawk > 1989 C&C 37+ > Solomons, MD > > _______________________________________________ > > Thanks everyone for supporting this list with your contributions. Each > and every one is greatly appreciated. If you want to support the list - > use PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray > > _______________________________________________ > > Thanks everyone for supporting this list with your contributions. Each > and every one is greatly appreciated. If you want to support the list - > use PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray > >
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