Where to buy teflon for trailer???

[Noelm]

almost any plastics place will be able to supply "teflon" (it is NOT teflon) in long lengths, but it is not cheap, if you go that way, make sure you explain to the shop what you want the plastic for and they can supply the correct material, the blue and red stuff you get from boat shops (with the "slot" for screws/rivets) comes from over seas in the 1.5M cut lengths, I doubt they could order in any other size, unless it was a big volume order. The weight of the boat should indeed be taken by the centre rollers/skids/whatever, the side "bunks" are to stop the boat tipping over, thats all, and the tension put on a hull by a wide ratchet tie down is extreme, make no mistake about that!

[Jarrah Jack]

Oldboot There is a place down the road here that machines all sorts of stuff from that blue plastic teflon material. They also do boat skids and sell them on ebay. If you found them through ebay, the're in Hastings, they will be able to get the right size to you.http://cgi.ebay.com.au/6-Parallel-Bo...item1e5e768f96

Thats them give Josh a ring he's a young bloke and very helpful.

[oldboot]

Like many things.......it is common for "rules" of how to, to be sprouted and accepted as fact when there is no such necessity.

There are so many variations on how boats and trailers are built and the expectations on how they should sit together.

I agree that a conventional aluminium hull boat that most of us with be familiar with should have a large portion even a majority of its weight supported by the keel.....but to quote some hard and fast proportion I believe is unreasonable.

There are so many ways to set up a boat on a trailer, and quite a lot of it comes down to personal preference.

My preference is to have the rollers and the runners set up such that, as the boat is pulled up on the trailer the hull contacts the runners/bunks over the full length....as the boat comes off the trailer the runner clearance increases.

as for putting on more rollers..oh hell yeh, the new trailer has the boat sitting evenly on 5 rollers and in a bow chock, and two long bunks.

BTW..... the runners are the things screwed to the surface of the bunks to stop skuffing & damage.

Takes some time and have a look at how a lot of boats sit and travel on their trailers........soo many of them don't sit straight and move arround a hell of a lot on the trailer..........If ya just going 20 minutes to the local boat ramp on smooth roads.......probaly not a problem.

If the boat sits properly on its rollers and when tied down sits firmly on its bunks, it wont be moving much at all.

cheers

[flotsom]

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Plastic Engineering at Brendale - they do it all, well I have used them in the past and managed to get what I need, including templates required to cover a larger hole in the dash when you are fitting new radios, electronics etc. All laser cut to your drawing for the smaller stuff.