Screws For Aluminum Boat Floor

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Screws for aluminum boat floor.

An example of this is where stainless steel screws and blind rivets are used to install hardware on to the aluminum spars of a sailboat. Your plywood decking sits on top of these cross members and creates the floor for your boat. If you re looking for specialty fasteners or marine rivets you ve come to the right place. When dissimilar metals make contact damage due to galvanic corrosion can occur.

But sheet metal screws should never be used to fasten hardware to extruded aluminum spars masts booms spinnaker poles and so on because sheet metal screws are designed to be held in place by a single thread and are not meant to cut threads they distort the walls of the hole into a helix. Our pontoon deck screws are designed to be spaced 16 apart and run down through your plywood and aluminum cross members. Boat rivets specialty fasteners. All pontoon boats use aluminum cross members or stringers to connect the tubes of the pontoon.

Using tef gel and other preparations will not completely eliminate the problem. Screws treated with a high quality coating consisting of zinc and aluminum flakes are especially resistant to corrosion. In stock and ready to ship.