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My old A35 has a molded-in cutlass bearing housing, not the usual bronze, bolted on setup. It looks like the fabrication of the thing involved building up glass around an 1-3/8" glass tube. It will go for long periods where it works just fine but then the set screws that hold the cutlass in will loosen, being threaded into fiberglass, and I have to tighten them up. Sometimes the whole cutlass will spin! The idea of threading set screws into fiberglass seems like a gross engineering error to me. I do not want to get into trying to adapt a stock bronze housing unless I have to. My thought is to build up the glass of the housing even more and solidly bed in some permanent, threaded s.s. inserts to hold bolts which can be threaded in to hold the cutlass in place. Indents in the cutlass bronze drilled to accept the opposing 3/8" bolts. Will also drill holes through the bolt heads so they can be seized in place.
Has anyone else had this sort of problem? Is there another fix?
Has anyone else had this sort of problem? Is there another fix?
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