Pouring lead for added rudder weight

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richg99

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My 13 yr. old grandson got a small sailboat for Christmas. It has a plywood rudder. The rudder works OK but it still wants to float up sometimes.

Today, we got some lead wheel weights and melted them down. We drilled a hole in the rudder; tapered the edges with a chamfer bit; and melted lead.

I did find out that most of the newer weights are NOT all lead. Many wouldn't melt at all with the propane torch that I had. We had enough lead ones to allow us to finish the project, though.

regards, richg99
 

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NICE! i wish i would have thought of that when i was a teen, my now ex-wife had a "sunfish" sailboat where the keel would rise up.
 

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