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With the right products and tools, along with a healthy portion of elbow grease, it's possible to give an older sailboat's gelcoat a new lease on life. The post Polishing the Gel Coat Is a Good Alternative to Painting the Topsides appeared first on Cruising World.
I don't think many decent sized marine steam engines had flywheels, instead they relied on the inertia in the shafting and prop and were flange drive. All the large marine diesels I have worked on have had flange mounted flywheels, no keys just fitted bolts and high torque. If a flywheel were fitted to a small marine steam engine I would expect it would be secured with a taper gib head key. That's how traction engine flywheels and line shaft pulleys etc were retained, having had to remove some I can vouch for how tight they can hang on! Either that or mounted on a taper on the end of the cr...