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Old 12-04-2010, 11:48 PM   #6
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What you have going there will work, obviously. But the practice is to draw the prop up with thin thin "lock" nut and them jam it with the big "jam" nut....then cotter pin.

It's easier to get more bite on the bigger area of the jam nut when jamming it in. Otherwise you'd end up rounding over the thin nut more often trying to jam it.

Jon, 24' Nauset-Green Topsides, Beamie, North River. Channel 68/69. MSBA, NIBA
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