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Trim Tab Brace
- taildrgr
- Scurvy Dog
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Trim Tab Brace
Does anyone have any experience with these braces? They do not slide, but at bolted tight.
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Re: Trim Tab Brace
You don't see these very often on pleasure craft but fishing charter vessels that require reversing at a much higher rpm than we typically do usually have these because of the pressure the water exerts on the actuators. When you revere, the water wants to push the tab down. Since you're only fighting spring tension in the actuator when it is not all the way down, the water will push the tab down until the ram bottoms out on the spring in the actuator. At that point, all the load on the tab is being transferred to the bottom of the actuator casing. The bracket relieves this load off the actuator. The only thing that prevents the tab from moving past the point you set it at unless it's all the way down is spring tension. You can push the tab down with one hand so imagine how much pressure the water would put on it at a decent rpm over the entire surface of the tab. I imagine the spring in the actuator is only designed to handle a little backward pressure for maneuvering while taking into consideration the weight of the tab and force required to push all the fluid out of the actuator once the valve opens during a retraction cycle.
PS, this is not and electric tab, it's a hydraulic one.
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