hello. i have an oday 22. the u bolt chainplates connect to an L shaped bracket that mounts to the bulkhead. i am having trouble finding this L shaped bracket. i tried contacting rudy and have not heard back from him yet. i have also contacted ronstan, suncoast stainless, and rig rite. i have not found this bracket yet. i was also thinking of fabricating the bracket or buying ss chainplates and bending them to 90 degrees. if anyone has any info on this i would be gretaly appreciative. my boat is sitting in its dock unsailable and its killing me.
chainplate L brackets
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Joe,
Did you call Rudy or did you email him? You're better off calling him. I'm pretty sure that he has these L brackets. I had the same set up on my 86 O'Day 222 years ago and I installed O'Day 25 chain plates. I really don't recomment that you that route though. It's a heck of a lot easier to just replace the L brackets. If Rudy doesn't have them, you could probably have them made up somewhere. I've been down that road before.
Joe
i called him three times. finally got a hold of a woman who told me is would take at least three weeks. thats how long it took him to build my new rudder. she also said they were 40 a piece. yikes! i talked to rig rite and they have the angle bracket for 22! nice. i took the old angle brackets to cleveland motorcycle and they sent me to a corvette guy who fabs stainless. he is welding them right now and putting corner braces on to strengthen the little buggers. it will cost about 20. i should have them by monday. and rig rite would have me new ones in two day ship. so iam pretty pleased. i am also glad that i didnt use the ones i fabbed myself. although i did a great job using mending steel at 255mm, i trust a pro to make them to withstand the disbursement of pressure. besides i think i might have went a little to beefy for my 22. now if i can find out about the spinnaker i will be set.
I think that you're better off having them made by a metal fabricator. I can't believe that they want all that money for those chintzy little L brackets. I'm not sure how much I paid for the O'Day 25 chain plates. I want to say about $18 a piece when I bought them off Rudy. Then I had problems with water getting in around the chain plates. I had to have special plates made up to go over the OD chain plates, and have them welded to them. I think that job cost me about $250. I had beefed up the bulkhead with solid oak boards in the V birth section which I bolted to the settees. I haven't had a problem since. Good luck Joe!
Joe
thank you. they are expensive. thankfully there is no water leaking. i have a great silicone sealant i can use when iam ready to remount them. we had a storm this afternoon and i was sure they would leak but not a drip. i was very impressed with the work you have done to your boat. keep up the good job.
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