Hello All,
I live in middle TN. near Nashville and I've only been here a short while.
Does anyone know where I might acquire used or new boat stands? I need to
lay my 26' sailboat on the hard for a while. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Rick

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"ex_squid" wrote in message
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Hello All,
I live in middle TN. near Nashville and I've only been here a short while.
Does anyone know where I might acquire used or new boat stands?

A short conversation at your local welding shop should produce some
reasonably priced stands.

reader wrote:
"ex_squid" wrote in message
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Hello All,
I live in middle TN. near Nashville and I've only been here a short while.
Does anyone know where I might acquire used or new boat stands?


A short conversation at your local welding shop should produce some
reasonably priced stands.



It's almost impossible to make them cheaper than they are sold.
Brownell is the company that makes them (I think). They stack tightly
for shipping. A search for "boat stands" will probably get you them.

Evan Gatehouse

"Evan Gatehouse" wrote in message
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reader wrote:
"ex_squid" wrote in message
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Hello All,
I live in middle TN. near Nashville and I've only been here a short
while.
Does anyone know where I might acquire used or new boat stands?


A short conversation at your local welding shop should produce some
reasonably priced stands.



It's almost impossible to make them cheaper than they are sold.
Brownell is the company that makes them (I think). They stack tightly
for shipping. A search for "boat stands" will probably get you them.

Evan Gatehouse

Thanks reader, thanks Evan,
I am aware of Brownell and I think their prices are reasonable but I
thought I'd try to find them locally first to avoid the shipping. I'm also
looking into the cost of having them built for an "overall" comparison.

Thanks

"ex_squid" wrote
Thanks reader, thanks Evan,
I am aware of Brownell and I think their prices are reasonable but I
thought I'd try to find them locally first to avoid the shipping. I'm
also
looking into the cost of having them built for an "overall" comparison.

You are probably only going to need 6 or 7 stands. I doubt you will find a
welding shop that can make them cheaper than Brownell. I have all the
equipment to build them myself so I looked into it once and figured that the
material alone to build a 50" stand would run about $75. The 1 1/4" Acme
threaded rod for the top will cost about $12/foot and you will need
18"/stand. The wing nut is another $40.

You will have to absorb a lot of tooling cost.. A welding shop will have to
make a jig in order to keep
the angles right and we haven't even started talking about the swivel heads.
I doubt you could build them in small quantities for under $140 each
including labor.

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Glenn Ashmore writes:

The 1 1/4" Acme
threaded rod for the top will cost about $12/foot and you will need
18"/stand. The wing nut is another $40.

$6/foot with free shipping from use-enco.com. Nuts are $4.29.

But you're right, the make-or-buy analysis sez "buy".

That is a good price of the rod but Enco doesn't sell acme wing nuts. You
would have to buy a regular acme hex nut and weld on some rod for handles.
Not exactly the strongest solution.

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Glenn Ashmore

I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack
there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com
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"Richard J Kinch" wrote in message
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Glenn Ashmore writes:

The 1 1/4" Acme
threaded rod for the top will cost about $12/foot and you will need
18"/stand. The wing nut is another $40.

$6/foot with free shipping from use-enco.com. Nuts are $4.29.

But you're right, the make-or-buy analysis sez "buy".

Glenn Ashmore writes:

That is a good price of the rod but Enco doesn't sell acme wing nuts.
You would have to buy a regular acme hex nut and weld on some rod for
handles.

I assume that would be the approach, if you're welding the stands
themselves.

Are the Brownells wing nuts a cast item, or welded, or what? Is this
something they make themselves or have made or is a more widely used
component?

The ones I have seen are cast wingnuts but I would guess that if you buy a
few thousand at the time the price goes down significantly. The $40 price
was from McMaster where you pay to get just one and get it today.

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Glenn Ashmore

I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack
there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com
Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com

"Richard J Kinch" wrote in message
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Glenn Ashmore writes:

That is a good price of the rod but Enco doesn't sell acme wing nuts.
You would have to buy a regular acme hex nut and weld on some rod for
handles.

I assume that would be the approach, if you're welding the stands
themselves.

Are the Brownells wing nuts a cast item, or welded, or what? Is this
something they make themselves or have made or is a more widely used
component?

Glenn Ashmore wrote:
That is a good price of the rod but Enco doesn't sell acme wing nuts. You
would have to buy a regular acme hex nut and weld on some rod for handles.
Not exactly the strongest solution.

No, but look at the application. A 26' boat may weigh 5000 pounds, and
90% is carried by the keel on the ground. The other 500 pounds is
divided over the stands.

250 foot pounds of torque on a 1"-8 UNC thread will develop a thrust of
15000 pounds. I.e., enough to lift three of these bolts. Two pieces
of 1/4x1" flat bar welded to the sides of the nut to act as handles can
carry this much torque without the welds breaking. (Of course, a normal
human would have to put lengths of pipe over each handle to generate
this much torque...)

So while bar stock welded to a hex nut isn't the strongest solution,
it'll still be way, way stronger than needed.

I'll also suggest that there's no advantage to using acme thread in
this application. For a given size you get a coarser thread, which
means more movement per turn, but it's more costly and actually has
less strength since the threads are deeper.

Tim
(who's just designed a cradle for a 34' boat.)