Saving Old Seagulls

I face the effects of galvanic corrosion often while restoring a seagull outboards. Aluminum to steel or Brass to steel is relatively easy to handle. Heat, some lubricant or just excessive heat will free the screw that was stuck.

My last attempt was to free one brass thumb screw from an aluminum C-clamp (one of the latest transom bracket). Fairly nothing worked. It was one small piece broken inside the c-clamp. I could catch it so I heated the point and try in vain. Then I screwed it again in and with a die cleaned the threads. Again in the same point it stuck. In the end with the torch burning and me trying to turn the piece it finally break. I drill it and retap the c-clamp. If the screw was made of steel it would have been freed without much effort.

Again a support lug with the brass rod never freed. The lug was broken so I decided to cut it to remove it from the transom bracket.

Has anyone a solution to this situation?

Bummer, that is why you should never buy buy one of those aluminum brackets with the titanium thumb screws

Doesn't that cat ever stop?

Ahhhh days when ships were made of wood and the men made of steel. Now, well ships of steel etc. Swing them lights.