We're at that same place again Baz. Tell me where are we at in the job? I'll be
perfectly honest I've been putting this off because
I have been putting this off because
I've got so many trepidatious
thoughts about the key not coming out of the end of the shaft easily
finding out that the
length of the shaft will butt up here against the end of the rudder and we
won't be able to fully remove the shaft without dropping the rudder and then
once we do have the shaft out how easy is it gonna be to get this cutlass
bearing out there are tools that you can get to make the job easy
we don't have one and we're not likely to be able to get one locally, so first
things first I'm gonna pull it out get to the key mark the key with a
permanent marker pen and take it from there really
It's that eating an elephant thing isn't it? It is eating an elephant yeah but the
problem is I'm thinking of five bites ahead and doing I'm gonna get
indigestion. One bite at a time love
Easy for me to say because I'm not the one
that's doing the hard yakka
Looking at the bearing, I don't know. Yes it probably does need changing
What the cutlass bearing? Yeah
So I'm just gonna mark the end of the key
So we know that this is the
end of the key. Yeah and that's the bottom and this is, yep yeah
We got a lot
of great suggestions from many of our viewers of the video where we asked how
that key would come out and a lot of people just said spray it with an easing
lubricant, grab your favorite pair of mold grips or vice grips give it a good yank
So let's see how that goes hey? She said... That's what she said!
Getting a grip on it is gonna be the tricky bit!
Not a lot of surface area there to grip
Did you spray at
this end coz it might go in through the gap at the top
Hmm. Can you stick a little screwdriver in the top there and sort of like... and
break the screwdriver Oh would it yeah.
You're talking quite heavy forces here
I don't see any movement from the black marks
No I don't either
Alright well that's not going to work is it? No
Right, more tools - Okay - I'm gonna need the hammer, screwdriver and a rag. A rag right
You getting it as low as you can?
Yeah coz I guess I need to get behind it don't it?
So you are using the screwdriver in the slot method!
Still no movement. No, not at all
Well no great success with the wd-40 and pliers or a hammer and a screwdriver - it hasn't
budged a millimetre So I've come back to our video and I'm gonna go through the comments
again to see if there's anything I've missed
that's obvious but you know
ironically the key is the key to getting the whole job done
It's so frustrating
Biggest hammer they had in the workshop
Still no movement
I'm using a punch instead of the screwdriver because it's got you know
more surface area - more surface area so less likely to damage the key
Getting it in's gonna be fun isn't it? Yeah!
It is moving! It is
You'd kind of think once it
started shifting that it would just glide wouldn't you?
Glide! It must be a really
really snug fit
If I had a longer handle punch it'd be better
Have you got one in er... No this is all I've got in this size
Hey show us what you've
got there. A bit of a man tool?
It's a punch so I've got more length so I can get more wellie on it.
and that looks small enough to fit in the hole
Seriously?
Yeah. Just comes out with one tap!
It is coming out it's it's definitely out
further than it was
There you go
That's a good fitting piece of equipment that isn't it?
The key. The key.
Okay let's celebrate that triumph!
Well we got the key out
We had to use a big persuader and a lot of belting so certainly not one tap and
it's out. A lot of belting. It's gots lots of burs on it now so I've got to sand ...
The Dremel will probably do that Anyway
here comes our next test to see whether we're gonna get this prop out without having to
drop the rudder
How far away are we from it? About four centimetres
Move your hand I'll do this
Whoa! That's it you're there!
Wow - Bl99dy h3ll ... that's heavy
Okay, two wins.
So this is the inside of the cutlass bearing
It's quite worn isn't it? Or is that calcification?
No it's ... well yeah that's like seawater and grime that gets in there
So now the problem is how do we get that out?
So is this a part of the ... yep ... cutlass bearing> Yep
Well that kind of all looks seized in doesn't it?
So we've already removed the two grub screws that keep
the cutlass bearing in its position and
actually just looking at this, they've put it in wron. See the way they've got
the black ... the black bits and then a gap
Well the black bit should be right there at the
very base. So when we put the new one in will do it properly
Patrick Sandin who has a
similar boat to ours, it's the Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 45.2 was
asking it about our Gory folding prop and what size it is and to be honest with you
I don't really know. So if I measure across from there to about there
I'd say we're probably looking at 50 centimetres.
An individual blade is 23 centimetres
And the bit in the middle
About 8cm Okay. All right so hopefully that helps
Come on muscles, you can do it
Right now let's go up top and back
forward because there's something I want to ask you guys
Inside our extremely dirty (at the moment) anchor locker we have our windlass
now this little pole that's stored here goes into the windlass brake and we've never
been able to use it because it is stuck so the question is - two questions really
what method would be best you think to unstick it just a constant spray with
wd-40 over a week or so or is there something better that we can do to
loosen it up? And the other question is to release the chain so it free falls
overboard do I push this handle forward or aft, in other words is forward
tightening or is aft tightening the winch brake?
I've got eight bottles, that's all I can carry with one hand
But it's eight less than there were
on the beach before
One miniscule beach cleanup Better than nothing though, hey?
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