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Description of recent improvements to stuffing boxes, including Drip-Free and Teflon packing, face seals and lip seals. 2 pages with diagram and list of vendors.
[Cruising World, April 2000]
Stuffing box, shaft seals, with vendor list.
[Cruising World, April 2000]
Non-commercial website devoted to helping others evaluate and choose components to install a saildrive unit. Links to manufactures and other resources.
[Saildrive.info, USA]
"Most boat owners aren′t even aware that engine alignment is one of those things that requires occasional maintenance," says the author. Here′s a primer on the components of a typical drive system and its most likely problems. Written for powerboat owners, but much a applies to cruising sailboats.
[Yachtsurvey.com]
There are alternatives to the ubiquitous straight drive. The author looks at the advantages of vee drive, hydraulic drive, constant velocity, sail drive, and jet drive.
[Ocean Navigator, November 1996]
A 40-year-liveaboard couple describe their home-designed prop-shaft alternator. It provides unusually charging abilities when combined with the engine alternator.
[SetSail.com, Charlotte, NC, USA]
Prop nuts, propeller, shaft, cutlass bearing, stern tube, stuffing box, and coupling.
[Cruising World, April 2001]
A Prout Escale 39 owner′s well illustrated account of the hydraulic drive system installed between his engine and propeller.
[Constantin von Wentzel, Harpswell, ME, USA]
A discussion board and photo gallery for cruising sailors and wannabes focused on selection, operation and maintenance of yacht engines, drive trains, and related systems.
[Cruisers Forum, Buskerud, Norway]
This ABYC standard is a guide for the design, construction and materials for propeller shafts and struts, and the installation of shaft bearings, stern bearings, struts, shaft seals, shaft logs, shaft couplings, and propellers.
[American Boat & Yacht Council, Edgewater, MD, USA]
Electrolysis, Grounding and Corrosion
The most common cause of vibration is engine/shaft/strut misalignment, followed by engine mount and strut problems.
David Pascoe
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