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02-25-2021, 01:21 PM #15000 RPM
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is a swept lower factory or have they all been cut down? thanks
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02-25-2021, 07:17 PM #2
I don't really understand the question, so here is an attempt:
Mercury offered swept skegs and straight skegs in performance motors. Straights were made for counter-rotating setups but some people run single motor straight skegs. The swept skeg cam in 2 different profiles, one is quite a bit thicker than the straight skeg and the other is about the same thickness.
Places such as bobs machine offer torque tabs which can be riveted or welded to a skeg to make it like a swept skeg.
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02-27-2021, 07:28 AM #35000 RPM
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the reason i asked is i thought a swept skeg was offered from the factory and a friend of mind said no.he says a swept skeg was a skeg that had been cut down from a straight one.(NOT FROM THE FACTORY)
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02-27-2021, 08:29 AM #4
your "friend" is wrong.................
swept for single motor... straight for multiple motors.. though thats not always tha way some build.. depends on whats available at time to get on tha water!Last edited by tlwjkw; 02-27-2021 at 08:33 AM.
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02-27-2021, 12:03 PM #5
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03-01-2021, 11:18 AM #6
What your friend seems to be referring to is not what we considered "swep" I think. I thing you are referring to the skeg that angles back to mirror the angle of the exhaust cavity which is above the carrier. He is saying that this is cut from a skeg that the trailing edge extends perfectly square down from the carrier. Same thing goes, they werer both offered from the factory. If you look at the shape of them there is no possible way to cut them from a straight skeg as the trailing corner extends further back...
What we normally consider a "swept" skeg kicks out to the side in addition to trailing back...and that's what my previous comment (as well as some others) were referring to.
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