I have some exhaust hose/components on my boat which were secured using soft steel strapping. Obviously that hasn't held up too well. I'm looking for 1/2" or 3/4" perforated stainless steel strapping. My on-line searches haven't found anything. Does anyone know of a source?
-- Geoff
I've hammered flat and drilled scraps of thin-wall tubing to improvise this sort of thing. Ugly but effective.
You might check with a plumbing supply house -- I've got to think *somebody* makes SS pipe strap.
In rec.boats.cruising Doug Miller wrote: :In article , Geoff Schultz wrote: :>I have some exhaust hose/components on my boat which were secured using :>soft steel strapping. Obviously that hasn't held up too well. I'm looking :>for 1/2" or 3/4" perforated stainless steel strapping. My on-line searches :>haven't found anything. Does anyone know of a source?
:You might check with a plumbing supply house -- I've got to think *somebody* :makes SS pipe strap.
McMaster sells 302 stainless strapping. It's not perforated, though. Page 1492 of the online catalog.
IF its stainless have your wallet filled up.
John
"Wrap lok"sp comes in ss although it is not perforated. I believe it is not too $$ for stainless.
Chuck P.
Hey Geoff,
Can't help with the SS, but plumbers tape does come in copper, and in galvanized. Also comes in various gauges of material.
And of course gear-clamps (hose clamps?) come in SS and FULL stainless.
Brian Laws>I have some exhaust hose/components on my boat which were secured using
Two products come quickly to mind.
1) SS Band-it strap. Make your own holes. (good excuse to buy a Whitney punch) You will probably have to buy a whole roll, but it will last you a lifetime! Available at commercial hardwares and (naturally) on the Internet. If you go ahead and buy the tool and some buckles, you will find many uses around a boat. Band-it tools & supplies are (or were) common in Navy damage control kits. 2) SS tie wraps made for the communications industry.Vaughn
There are kits of 1/2" wide stainless steel 'hose' straps that are 20' or so in length. So it doesn't have round holes - slotted holes are perforated.
I bought mine from MSCdirect.com
Another is to plasma cut a bunch of holes then the strip.
Martin
Mart> Geoff Schultz writes:
john wrote in news:H4ydnRrerPUeMAPbnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@nni.com:
I've found unperforated SS strapping at reasonable prices, but I was hoping to find perforated. I suppose that I could use unperforated.
-- Geoff
Buy the unperfed strap, use a hand punch to add the holes,
McMaster has a heavy duty version for around $50 or so
Geoff Schultz wrote:
And then get a smaller punch and punch the punchings, and you've got a nice supply of washers! :-)
Easier to turn unperfed into perfed than to turn mild steel into stainless.
Go here:
On the page that appears on the left click on: perforated steel straps
On the page which appears on the right scroll down to: flexible straps
There you will see stainless straps, both perforated and solid.
dennis in nca
rigger wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@g12g2000prg.googlegroups.com:
Thanks for the pointer. That was just what I was looking for!
-- Geoff
On my last boat we used 1" and 2" nylon webbing. Very kind to the soft exhaust hoses and easy to install. Just heat an awl to melt a hole for a screw where you want it. Wrap the webbing 1 turn around the hose so the hose can't move fore/aft. Never a chafe problem
Evan Gatehouse
Evan Gatehouse wrote in news:ZACqi.10404 $_d2.2086@pd7urf3no:
That's a good idea! Thanks!!!
-- Geoff
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