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Standing & Running Rigging and Fitting/Tuning / Re: Loose Bonding wire
« on: December 25, 2022, 04:13:05 PM »
That stud is there to keep the oblong inlet strainer located fore and aft and also as a convenient place for bonding wire.
The stud is the original Bronze? If so I'd source two bronze nuts to fit and run one up against the hull a little tight then the wire's terminal then the second nut against the terminal.
Resist the temptation to install washers unless they are also the same metal material as the stud which was originally the same as the through hull fitting- Bronze.
The terminal is silver but it is plated copper so it should last another 40 years- especially in fresh water sailing.
The stud is the original Bronze? If so I'd source two bronze nuts to fit and run one up against the hull a little tight then the wire's terminal then the second nut against the terminal.
Resist the temptation to install washers unless they are also the same metal material as the stud which was originally the same as the through hull fitting- Bronze.
The terminal is silver but it is plated copper so it should last another 40 years- especially in fresh water sailing.