Saving Old Seagulls

If you had been local I could have lent you a bracket...

Thanks very much for the thought,

I wish I could devote more time to this project, but the house is in bits - no gutters/woodwork all along one side. And, the weather seems against me. It's either raining or blowing a gale!

I'll post here ...

Cut out/remove the old screw, get two longish metric bolts - 10mm should do - which will pass through the screw holes, and some nuts and washers to put either side of the bracket to tighten the bolts as needed.
Be nice if you could get the bolt heads on the inside of the bracket to spread the load ...

charlesp wrote:Whereabouts are you?

Hi Charles, I'm in Lancashire, not far from Preston - why?

Hi, I'm trying to get an old 40+ from 1954 going. This motor has had a hard life, and the bronze transom clamp has been broken and brazed at some time. The stainless pin thing for hinging on has been replaced with a bolt, with a seized up plain steel stiff nut rusted on to it. There is only on ...