Just another thought, if you have no luck with suppliers you could try making them from rod with washers welded on the end. If you are having any other stuff galvanised send them off with it to be hot dipped.
the lads in question, were driven through the knees (nailed through the knees sounds like a mafia punishment!), through the deck beam and then finally into the frame
overall, for 70 years old they were in pretty good nick, but are a little 'waisted' at the point where they broke through the deckbeam and into the frame, the first 8" is more than good enough to go back in elsewhere IMHO
to behonest, I'm amazed I even got em out!
considering a bolty type solution, bolt through the new knee and beam, and out the other side of the frame and bolt em up...
Boilts might be a better idea, then you couyld drill out the holes, drive in the bolts, with some mastic type stuff around them, then the galvanising wouldnt get damaged and bolt them up with galvanised nuts/big diameter washers, rivet over one nut and then its a giant nut and bolt, much better solution than erfing big nails. Plus of course infintely adjustable to pull it all together.
A better way to form a head would be to clamp the rod in a plumber's tube-flaring tool (the female part, with the whacking great countersink), and then peen the end into a nice, domed head. Put the head at the deck beam end, with a curl of caulking cotton under it, and there you are!
Peter.
I'm with Scotty on this, bolts are the way to go, for me the other big advantage of bolts is that you wont have to hammer the boat to death driving nails in.
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