In this episode we get back to servicing the lewmar anchor windlass by die tapping one of the electrical connection bolts, painting and re-assembling. We als...

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it's so windy yes the sound of a

shipyard and wind crazy people today

guys like the boats moving a lot the

enclosure looks like it's gonna rip

right off it's not going to though and

there's a big howling coming from over

there

I don't know it's it's so it's there

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last time when sailing balachandra i

isolated the core in my windlass

mounting piece and began rebuilding and

servicing my windlass we have decided to

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not more yeah and now let's get back to

that winless project this is where I

remove the gasket on the gearbox and

I've already removed the gasket from the

cover here and that's ready to go so I'm

just gonna clean up the gasket on this

side

once it's clean I'll be able to put the

cover back on with a new seal this is

gasket making material which is kind of

like a rubber seal and so what I have to

do here is just cut a custom seal for

this gasket and as you can see I've

already done that to create the template

I just pressed the cover down on this

gasket material like this which gave me

a circle and then I was able to form the

shape and I've had this old hole punch

here for punching belts and things like

that and that came in handy for making

the holes for the bolts so here it is

the gasket is on and everything's done

sealed up pretty good I had to add some

extra gear oil as well just for the

stuff that came out when I started this

job but as you can see it's sealed up

really good and I'm pretty happy with

this okay so I've got to deal with these

bolts here these are the main electrical

connections for the windlass as you can

see I've cleaned these up pretty good

with a wire brush and some steel wool

and stuff these threads aren't in great

shape this one they're pretty much gone

on this one they're partially gone but

possibly usable and on this one it's

actually not too bad it looks pretty

good so I'm going to be hitting this

with a tap and dye kit and cleaning up

as best I can

I'm going to reduce the diameter of this

bolt and then Reeth app new threads on

that bolt so that I can use a new

smaller nut and reconnect the

electricity to this and then it should

be fine this is my tap and dye kit and

this is the dye that I'm going to be

using to tap new threads onto the bolt

before you start cutting new threads

it's important to apply some sort of

lubricant and the required lubricant for

steel is large when you're tapping a

bolt you go slow about a quarter turn at

a time and you continually have to back

turn just to clear the dye so that it

can make new cuts

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and there we go all done brand new

threads check it out

I've done my very best to clean up all

the old paint and I've sanded all this

metal down and I used some mineral

spirits to clean the surface it's time

to pay

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okay so I waited 24 hours I applied a

second coat then waited 24 hours and

apply a third coat and I think I'm ready

to reassemble the winless here's the

motor cover ready to go on and here are

the top side pieces that go above deck

I've spray-painted these just to give

them a little extra protection hey guys

so as you can see my windlass is mounted

back on to the mounting piece just show

you what I got done so I put three coats

of paint on the windows itself put a new

rubber thing out these are called but to

protect the wires to keep the water over

there I use butyl tape on these two

screws to preserve the seal here so that

water doesn't get in I was able to reuse

this rubber seal that goes around the

cap it was in good shape so it's back on

there so everything seems to be pretty

good on this side the other side so I

have added some paint on these aluminum

pieces and I ordered a new seal from

Newmar for the shaft because the old one

was pretty much toast and I've got this

all bedded down with butyl tape because

the old seal was just a foam washer and

that didn't last very long

so this butyl tape should keep all the

rain and seawater out of it all and do a

good job so all done ready to mount it

back in the boat thanks again for

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god damn it's windy