Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 4:33 am
I agree with todds comment re: hole size. The lower (rib drain) should be the same, or a fraction larger diameter than the top one to allow bits to be removed. I have enlarged one, partly as a "test" and also to get out an annoying Nylok nut that had been residing as a loose plug for a while!
The newly exposed metal has been coated with Waxoyl. On the subject of said substance, it's the best thing since sliced bread ! You obviously don't put so much on as to clog the drain holes etc. but a generous coating over DRY metal can't be beaten!
A couple of times a year I remove the floor plates and leave the garden hose running in the foot wells to flush out any crud from the lower rib. A long, small dia. flexi brush with a wire extension handle worked along the drain rib whilst water is flowing brings out all those soil and mud samples you have been carefully been storing away!
Sorry if the above paragraph touches raw nerves in certain parts (Peter in Oz) wasting precious water etc. but here in Scotland we've more than enough! Our spring out on the moors has been in full overflow mode right through the summer ! (Summer - that's a joke!)
Sorry, veering OT.
Mike
Ayrshire.
The newly exposed metal has been coated with Waxoyl. On the subject of said substance, it's the best thing since sliced bread ! You obviously don't put so much on as to clog the drain holes etc. but a generous coating over DRY metal can't be beaten!
A couple of times a year I remove the floor plates and leave the garden hose running in the foot wells to flush out any crud from the lower rib. A long, small dia. flexi brush with a wire extension handle worked along the drain rib whilst water is flowing brings out all those soil and mud samples you have been carefully been storing away!
Sorry if the above paragraph touches raw nerves in certain parts (Peter in Oz) wasting precious water etc. but here in Scotland we've more than enough! Our spring out on the moors has been in full overflow mode right through the summer ! (Summer - that's a joke!)
Sorry, veering OT.
Mike
Ayrshire.