Job #9 - Cockpit drains - completed...

Hell yes....   👍💪

Just before my Saturday duty at the club (which was mud wading to check the moorings; a more execrable - quite literally - job I find it difficult to imagine) "Coral" Paul and I fitted the contents of the package I'd received from ASAP [clicky] the day before...

For the record these were:

• BALL VALVE DZR 3/4"BSP FEMALE PORTS x 2 (part no. 405704) @ £21.16 (each) 
• HOSETAIL 3/4"BSPM-19mm HOSE CRBRASS x 2 (part no. 435045) @ £3.83 (each)
• JUBILEE CLIPS 16-22mm 304 S/STEEL x 4 (part no. 416103) @ £1.08 (each)
• BLACK HELIFLEX HOSE 19mm x 1 MTR (part no. 412419) @ £1.95

So DZR throughout, and enough clips to double up  at both ends....  throw in 5 metres at least of PTFE and the job was a good'un for just less than £50 delivered...  

From this:

To this:

Double clips all round - and offset as I read somewhere that this distributes load better than having both screw heads facing the same direction....  decided not to bother crossing them as the hose run is so short..

Shiny!

Slight hiccup when a few days later, I found I had a small but irritating leak when it rained - I suspect that the hose was so stiff that it wouldn't collapse fully on to the hose tail...  I undid the hoses at the ball valve so as to pack the hose tails with PTFE and a thick smear of silicone (I used the frame sealant again as I had it handy), I also kept the hose end in a cup of boiling water as that helps with the compression from the clips...  Hopefully all now good - fingers crossed it stays that way when I launch!!

Absolutely made up as this was my big job of the winter...  now if/when I can get the cockpit drain sorted I'll be chuffed to nuts.....

Job #6 (Paint the cabin), Job #9 (Cockpit drains) - progress...

So another good weekends work - not least because "Coral" Paul turned up with one of the biggest Stilson's I've seen in some time, to have a go at the stop cocks...

Last weekend I'd managed to get the hose fittings off, but had fundamentally failed with the  actual stopcocks as I didn't have a wrench or spanner big enough..  the job was finished this weekend.

So from this:

Questions have been asked as to why so many nuts, so this is what I found - bottom to top, skin fitting, stopcock (two of them), and the top two were a compression fitting holding a length of copper pipe for the hose to attach to...

 

To this:

We used mole grips clamped on to a rag around the thread to stop the skin fitting moving, while protecting the thread, and then brute force and ignorance to get the stop cocks off...

Nice clean thread both sides but one of the benefits of a good close up is the detail and I'm a little concerned about those pink spots you can see....

More erudite minds will know but I'm wondering if that's dezincification (brass rust in basic terms) - if it is I may also need to swap out the skin fittings......

...and this was what came off....  other than the handle it was in pretty good nick... the stamp gives me the size though so new hose, hose tails and ball vales were ordered in DZR from ASAP Supplies this morning....

Separately, after these were taken off I then went at the forecabin roof with a wire brush attachment and having then cleaned up the resulting snow storm of paint flakes I painted it - forecabin now done..  main cabin next....

Job #9 - Cockpit drains - prep...

Time at last to get down to Sparrow if only to start preparation for some of the jobs I want to do before launch...

So first job was to identify what size the stopcocks are, and what condition the whole set up is in generally... 

First off, the cockpit drains...

Port side

Starboard

 

Which look good to me...   generally considered to be a good idea to have two jubilee clips but the fitting, and backing plate, looks good/sound...  nothing structural required there.

So on to the stop cocks..

Starboard

 

Through hull fitting looks good, but I'll investigate further to make sure that pad is sound....

Port

 

The starboard side will operate, it opens and closes but is stiff, the port side won't - it's jammed.
 

Side view

I need to research those markings..  I think the P would indicate these are not DZR

The  stop cocks themselves look good - I wonder if the better move might just be to strip and clean the closing mechanism and leave in situ..  time to ask for some advice!

...and size/scale - I'll pass these by my mate to confirm, but they look to be 3/4".

Thinking the best bet would be two new stop cocks (DZR), new hoses, new jubilee's and leave the cockpit drains and skin fittings alone.