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Tom Morgan
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 Posted - 23 Feb 2020 : 16:00:52
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| Just putting out my third (roughly) half-yearly request for help in finding a pulpit rail for my Norman 23. |
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cliveshep
Thailand
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Posted - 24 Feb 2020 : 03:59:21
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Find a company that work in non-ferrous metals like stainless steel tube, make a plan view drawing with dimensions, and make an elevation drawing also with dimensions. If you can do a paper or hardboard template of your foredeck all the better as you can mark where the base plates of the two middle legs should go as well as the after ends where the top rail curves down to the deck.
Take it along and ask them to make you one in say 25mm polished tube - nice and strong! As it is only bending tube, making 6 tig welds and polishing them off it really should not be that expensive.I had all the deck bright-work on my Ocean 30 made bespoke, pulpit, stanchions, davits, staghorns. Beautifully made and mirror polished by a company in Bedford - Barwell Spares and Service Ltd, 3 Lyon Cl, Kempston, Bedford MK42 7SB, United Kingdom, 01234 852915. My work-pal is a Director - Darren Marsh. Give him my regards from Thailand if you contact him.
Tip, take the angle of the rake of your bow and repeat it on the angle of the legs and also repeat the angle on the downturn ends to match - it adds symmetry. Allow the pulpit to project to the line of the stem if extended upwards, and do make it sweep upwards a little and not be parallel to the deck. It needs to be above knee height so you can brace yourself against it.
Bolt it down over caravan-type mastic tape with a spreader underneath the deck.
Finally living the dream!
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df
United Kingdom
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Posted - 24 Feb 2020 : 07:35:31
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non-ferrous metals like stainless steel
Come on Clive brush up on your metalurgy! At around 70% iron I'd call stainless steel pretty bloody ferrous.
NBAS--The communal colostomy bag of the boating community.
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cliveshep
Thailand
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Posted - 24 Feb 2020 : 09:53:31
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As opposed to mild steel, cast iron, soft iron, stainless is a bit more special oh pernickety one but......sigh........yes, it's ferrous!
The company do work in all manner of non-ferrous metals, aluminium, brass, copper, zinc and ahem.......ferrous stainless. They do brushed and mirror polished finishes and they are very good indeed. They have done work for me that was fairly specialised, such as igloo bomb-dump blast doors at RAF Wittering, several miles of safety railings, massive profiled cornices at Texas Instruments in Bedford, my boat of course, and numerous large jobs all over Surrey for me where high quality precision work was needed.
Finally living the dream!
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Tom Morgan
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Posted - 24 Feb 2020 : 19:41:56
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Thanks, Clive. I will look into that.
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jud
United Kingdom
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Posted - 27 Feb 2020 : 00:40:39
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Hi Tom.
Have you tried phoning Ron at "The Boat Jungle" at Stourport?
They've got loads of stuff for sale including scrap boats, cheap project boats and all kinds of spare parts, he might have something suitable.
It does'nt need to be off a N23 just close enough to be able to bend it to make it fit!
Jud.
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Tom Morgan
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Posted - 02 Mar 2020 : 19:10:31
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| Hi, Jud! Never heard of the Boat Jungle - but will be looking them up sometime this week. Hope all is OK at your end. |
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Norman 23 pulpit rail
