Mike, Hope you don't mind my butting in but I have been following your emails and would sure be interested in replacing my centerboard. I live on the west coast, where are you? Is it possible to put me in touch with the shops you have been talking to or can you maybe get a better price if you order more than one board. My M17 is a 1978 (I think) and has the same board as yours. The stainless sounds good to me. I appreciate any help you can offer. Thanks. Ken M17 "Mo Betta" From: "Honshells" <chonshell@ia4u.net> To: "For and about MontgomerySailboats" <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 5:40 PM Subject: M_Boats: replace center - board
Is that powDer coated? Is that necessary with stainless?
----- Original Message ----- From: "MC Carpenter" <southisland2@earthlink.net> To: "For and about Montgomery Sailboats"
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Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 6:20 PM Subject: replace center - board
Hey mark,
I found a weld shop that says they will cut the board out of plate steel and I should then get it power coated. the cost for the centerboard board steel replacement would be $100.00, the drilling of the pivot up hole, etc. would be $35.00. It will be a little bit thinner by a 1/8 inch. Don't know how much that would weight in at.. I've called a couple places for powered coated work, so far no quotes. -- I found a machine shop that can come up with a stainless board cut exactly same shape with holes drilled and all comes to $350.00 its made of 304 stainless, I think it should be 316 to be used in salt water..I think that would weight the same. Its cut with a laser and water/sand mix to extremely tight tolerances looks almost ready to polish. I didn't know they do that.
Mike
PS, how do you convert your drawings to jpeg, tiff and pdf ?
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