Harper's boating book for boys; a guide to motor boating, sailing, canoeing and rowing . ropeller with suffi-cient force to bend the shaft this stuffing-box would soonbecome worn and a bad leak would be caused. It requiressome neat carpenter work to fit this deadwood piece forthe stuffing-box, and there is a much simpler way of accom-plishing the same result at but little if any more cost, andcertainly in much less time. This is by buying a metalshaft-log, as it is called—a flat casting (Fig. 9) that canbe screwed flat into the surface of the boards with thestuffing-box in one piece. Amateurs
Harper's boating book for boys; a guide to motor boating, sailing, canoeing and rowing . ropeller with suffi-cient force to bend the shaft this stuffing-box would soonbecome worn and a bad leak would be caused. It requiressome neat carpenter work to fit this deadwood piece forthe stuffing-box, and there is a much simpler way of accom-plishing the same result at but little if any more cost, andcertainly in much less time. This is by buying a metalshaft-log, as it is called—a flat casting (Fig. 9) that canbe screwed flat into the surface of the boards with thestuffing-box in one piece. Amateurs will find this an easyway to overcome a difficulty. Shaft-hangers too can bepurchased which are adjustable to any desired depth,either in a single strut (Fig. 8) or of the double or Vtype with two legs (Fig. 7). 247 BOATING BOOK FOR BOYS Lining Up the Shaft When the stuffing-box is all fitted run the propeller-shaftthrough it up to the motors shaft and see how the twomeet. They should be in perfect line, one with the see if they are, lay a straight edge along the joint and. Fig. 9
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