Lifting eyes

[DAREDEVIL]

I bet you are mistaken, they look just like these only without the holes ! Ask Jerry at Stainless !!!!!!

I will try to find a picture for you, but i dont think they show them on the website ?!

[DAREDEVIL]

here is a picture of mine....

[Dan]

Originally Posted by Cookee

I'm not sure whether it's me or you but I can't see any similar products from Stainless Marine or Latham - or did you imagine it? I have been buying products from Stainless Marine for ten years and visited the factory in Miami and never see these items - of course I could be mistaken?

Cookee,
I know for a fact latham dont sell them as a standard line but can make them if required.
cheers
Dan

[Jon Fuller]

Originally Posted by DAREDEVIL

after 6-7 month of lifting at races they bend slightly.
They still look to be sound and look good , but both are bend inwards.

Anticipating this, I produced mine with a 'set' in them, so they line up perfectly with the direction of pull from the lifting strops in use.

These are produced using 100mm x 10mm (3/8" x 4") 316ss bar. Boat weighs circa 6700lbs

Made the extended transom mount brackets for the IMCO steering at the same time and from the same material, to get the steering hardware away from the tab rams.

[Jon Fuller]

Originally Posted by Dan

I've seen a few pics on here about some of the high quality lifting eyes and the welding polsihing etc etc but I have to be honest, these are the best quality I have seen, the pictures dont do them justice as taken with my phone, if you look at them in the flesh you would think they are machined and polished all from a stainless billet!

Being critical (coz I'm like that) they look beautifully made...polishing, welding etc, but it would have been nice to see a pretty radius on the corners of the mounting plate (as in a radius centred on the bolt centre), maybe CSK holes (personal preference) and, for the larger lightning hole to be the one closer to the root where the bracket is wider and the smaller where the large currently is,...plus, set the lifting hole itself central in the end radius, so that the material thickness remains the same around the end...purely from a aesthetic point of view, which of course is what those beauties are all about, with lifting the boat as a secondary requirement! just my POV.

[dowdy]

Would you be bovvered if i copied them? Just what i want. DAN?

[Dan]

Originally Posted by Jon Fuller

Being critical (coz I'm like that) they look beautifully made...polishing, welding etc, but it would have been nice to see a pretty radius on the corners of the mounting plate (as in a radius centred on the bolt centre), maybe CSK holes (personal preference) and, for the larger lightning hole to be the one closer to the root where the bracket is wider and the smaller where the large currently is,...plus, set the lifting hole itself central in the end radius, so that the material thickness remains the same around the end...purely from a aesthetic point of view, which of course is what those beauties are all about, with lifting the boat as a secondary requirement! just my POV.

Thanks Jon, always looking to improve on things so will consider all of your pointers.

[Gordon McMath]

Might also pay to ask any manufacturer outside the EU if they have proof of CE approval, and to check that each lifting bracket has its own individual id number which ties into the relevant certification.

[DAREDEVIL]

Originally Posted by Jon Fuller

Anticipating this, I produced mine with a 'set' in them, so they line up perfectly with the direction of pull from the lifting strops in use.

These are produced using 100mm x 10mm (3/8" x 4") 316ss bar. Boat weighs circa 6700lbs

Made the extended transom mount brackets for the IMCO steering at the same time and from the same material, to get the steering hardware away from the tab rams.

Jon, LOOKING GOOD !!!!

And Dan as i said..i like yours as well !

[Burty]

Originally Posted by Jon Fuller

Being critical (coz I'm like that) they look beautifully made...polishing, welding etc, but it would have been nice to see a pretty radius on the corners of the mounting plate (as in a radius centred on the bolt centre), maybe CSK holes (personal preference) and, for the larger lightning hole to be the one closer to the root where the bracket is wider and the smaller where the large currently is,...plus, set the lifting hole itself central in the end radius, so that the material thickness remains the same around the end...purely from a aesthetic point of view, which of course is what those beauties are all about, with lifting the boat as a secondary requirement! just my POV.

A bit like that? (i know its dirty)

[Dan]

Originally Posted by Burty

A bit like that? (i know its dirty)

I have got some 2 part cleaning product at home that I use, its the dogs mate, it re-passivates the stainless (unlike a standard polish which does just that polish)gives it as fresh protective layer. I'll bring it up next time.

[Jon Fuller]

Originally Posted by Burty

A bit like that? (i know its dirty)

Yeah, but WHO THE FKK used washers that are so big they overhang the edge of the bracket!!!!!!!!! This is not pretty aesthetics/rigging! I wouldn't have had washers at all under those cap heads (actually, I'd have gone countersunk, as indeed I did with my own)

Take no notice of me. I can be a bit picky over the silliest things.

[Jon Fuller]

Originally Posted by Dan

Thanks Jon, always looking to improve on things so will consider all of your pointers.

It was meant as constructive criticism, not a dig. I think they look lovely, it was just a couple of aesthetic points that caught my eye.

Beautiful work.

[Burty]

Originally Posted by Jon Fuller

Yeah, but WHO THE FKK used washers that are so big they overhang the edge of the bracket!!!!!!!!! .

erm, me

[Dan]

Originally Posted by Jon Fuller

It was meant as constructive criticism, not a dig. I think they look lovely, it was just a couple of aesthetic points that caught my eye.

Beautiful work.

Thats jusy how it was teken mate

[Jon Fuller]

Originally Posted by Burty

erm, me

Oh, oh well.....Get em changed

[Burty]

i'll make it my next job. will need a JBD to hold the bolts whilst i turn the nuts though