That is what I received from Amel last month as well. I cut to length with diagonal cuts. Installed each piece offset about 120 degrees. Carefully pounding each piece down around the shaft. Based on

Eric, I spoke to Amel. Yes, it has always come precut, but with some people recently retiring, some bits of previous and undocumented experience was lost. The new people did not have the correct

Hi Paul, Here is how I did it: For the shaft packing I used 70cm of PTFE Flax shaft packing 5/16” which have to cut into three pieces. Cut the corners at an angle for a better sealing. I

My belief, from many years in both aerospace and industrial electrical engineering, is that one should only put one terminal under a fastener (screw or bolt or nut). When there are more than one, it

Did you speak with Amel and ask why the packing did not come in precut? For the last 18 years mine was always precut. Fair Winds, Eric SM 376 Kimberite

Hello Paul, It’s an easy task; arm yourself with a very sharp knife. Remove all the old packing. (I use a dental pick) Wrap the new material around the rudder shaft and cut diagonally at about 1 mm

The exact metric size packing that Amel ships can be the very devil to source in the US, but the closest inch size works fine. If I recall Amel supplies 8mm packing, and 5/16 inch packing is within 1%

You can buy stuffing box packing from any decent chandler, it's not Amel specific. We did ours 7 years ago and it hasn't leaked since. Agree with Danny, used the shaft as a template, cut diagonally

C=pi*diameter Measure the diameter Length of packing= (3.14159265359* diameter) Let me know the answer. 😃 Best, CW Bill Rouse Amel Owners Yacht School +1 832-380-4970 | brouse@... 720 Winnie,

Eric, Bill, Danny, and Jarek, Thank you for your replies. I guess I’m going to have to cut the rings myself. If anyone has any additional advice, I would greatly appreciate it. All the best, Paul

Hi, I purchased for my SM also 1 x 70cm from SAV AMEL. This is perfectly normal as the stuffing material is supplied in 1 single length that will have to be re-cut into 3 pieces. Regards Jarek

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Hi Karen, I wrap the length around the rudder shaft and cut it on the diagonal. An alternative is to find a tube the same diameter and use that for your cutting template. I would not use a straight

One long piece spiraled around the shaft will most certainly NOT work. If Amel is not cutting it to length for you, it kind of defeats the purpose of buying from them! It needs to be accurately cut

I always received 3 individual pieces cut at a diagonal to the correct length. Fair Winds. Eric SM 376 Kimberlite

Good day all, I recently ordered the packing material from AMEL. I specifically requested: "Quantity 2 - Package of 3 rings of packing material for the Rudder Post" What I received was two individual

I apologize for not jumping into this fray. My experience with sealing chainplates with 5200 were less than good. It s difficult to find things that adhere well to stainless steel. The native oxide

Ken, Great news! Glad to hear that your all back together and that you decided to rebed the whole chainplate. You should be leak free in that area for a couple of decades or so. Try to avoid

This isn't advice, just our experience. Our boat was one of what seems to have been few SMs that were delivered with the "standard" 50 Amp alternator. For the way we use our boat, that has been

Hi Ken, We had some slight seapage on the port side chain plate ( in the head storage compartment). My remedy two years ago was to peal back the liner, thoroughly clean all around the bolts on the