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And if the rudder tube rusted and leakede it would leak into the bilge not into the fuel tank.

I'd have thought Arthur that your boat had a separate stand alone and not an integral tank.

If water spouts up past the stock it will run down through that rusty gap into the fuel tank as well as rain, ''if the rusty gap is through to the interior of the tank''. Said he tried to tighten the two nuts as well. Looks very dodgy to me

If that's a rusty gap on the edge of the mount and there;s an integral fuel tank rain and water chucked up from the prop will seep through into the tank.

If you have the password and your email address for 3 go to my 3 for everything including your gorilla bite usage for your conracts.

Hot while it's plugged in? If so don't do it. For just phone calls and texts, I bought a new old stock Nokia 3220, briliant, goes days-weeks on a charge, can't be bothered with Smart phones, hands usually oily. They are a horrid addiction.

Keeping them plugged in does shorten battery life and they can go bang. Yesterday a TUI Boeing 787 did an emergency landing, smoke in the cockpit again, possibly lithium battery problem, again.

You shouldn't leave em plugged in. Anyway, remove the battery take details from it and search ebay or Amazon for a new one.

Make your own. Black soot from the fluepipe and a drop of linseed oil mixed. What folk did before tubes of stuff.

That's more like it.

I can understant greasing over and around the clamp after it's fitted but not between post and clamp, just can't see the point, just a waste of vasalene or grease.