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10-15-2012, 12:49 PM
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20SF scuppers
Does anyone else's 20 look like this on the bottom? Seems like it would eliminate the need for a flaring tool. I did not do this, this is how I received the boat. They do appear bronze.
 
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11-05-2012, 10:04 PM
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Finally got the big nuts off the bottom. Inside the boat there is another big nut with epoxy right up to the top of the nut in the recessed area. I got most of it out but how the hell do I get them out of the boat? Just beat the hell out of them from the outside? The nut is 1 3/4 inch. I'm gonna see if someone at work has a big azz socket and breaker bar.
  You can kinda see what I mean in this older picture. With all the epoxy right upto the lip of the nut 
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11-05-2012, 11:05 PM
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I've had good success with a propane torch heating from the inside of my through hulls. If it is epoxy it will melt pretty quickly. Just don't light the boat on fire! Keep a good fire extinguisher handy just in case and don't over do it if you try this method!
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11-05-2012, 11:28 PM
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Certainly better quality tubing than the original but, no, haven't seen that version before. My initial sense is that the vacuum value of the wedge is lost due to the depth (protrusion) of the tube.
 looks like maybe the leak rotted the tube block and the bronze never really solved the problem the scupper leak problem.
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11-06-2012, 09:45 AM
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Strick, did you use any heat? Or just brute strength? Thanks
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11-06-2012, 10:52 AM
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At first I thought those were bronze thru-hulls, but after reviewing pics again I see nuts on both ends, so they must be brass or bronze pipes. They will be much thicker than the thin OEM brass tubes that Strick shows in his reply, so what works on those thin tubes won't work on thicker pipe. If bedded in epoxy, they will be tough to get out, although heat will soften the epoxy and will probably help, provided you don't start a fire! Some sort of puller, based on threaded rod, nuts, washers, a larger-than-pipe socket on one end, and a tapered socket on the other end with the same OD as the pipe would probably work best.
I assume you think the scuppers are leaking if you're considering all this work, but if there is no obvious leak and they're bedded in epoxy, I'd be inclined to leave 'em alone! Grinding the end of the tubes flush with the nut on the bottom would improve the suction behind those wedges, however. The fishbox up front on the SF models also has a thin brass drain tube that's prone to leaking, so I'd check that to make sure it's not a leak source before attacking the scuppers! Denny
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11-06-2012, 12:03 PM
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I am removing them because I am raising the deck and running the scuppers out the stern. Therefore I need to remove all remnants of these and fill and glass them so they never leak below my new deck height. Also I do not have any drain in the fish box up forward. It must have been removed and filled at some point.
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#9
11-06-2012, 09:18 PM
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Alright, it took a 1 7/8 inch socket and breaker bar and a hammer to get em out but they are out. Obviously they are not original but these suckers would probably never leak with how thick they are. The hull bottom is 3/8 inch thick.
     On a separate note, as suspected the forward fish box drain was sealed at some point. I can't tell where it came out on the hull. Probably due to the 27 layers of bottom paint on there. 
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