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[Aluminum Clone Owner]

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[Chaps]

You would use a bulkhead fitting that assembles into a hole you drill between the extension and the hull then install barbed hose fittings into both sides of the bulkhead fitting for your hoses. I've seen these at home depot. They are sometimes called tank adapters.

or you can also find this type with hose barbs and fitting molded as one piece.

[Aluminum Clone Owner]

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[kmorin]

ACO,

I hope you're not really considering using brass fittings in your aluminum boat? I think its safe to say that is like "drilling holes in your boat at the mooring"; not as wise a course of action as we'd like to see from an owner!

Plastic is only dangerous where impact could fracture a fitting, so these bulkhead fittings are not risky, but making batteries of your hull metal is risky. Packing glands are considered the accepted to way to do this work, but if the welding is done, access is gone and the installation of compression sealed glands is out, sealed bulkhead fittings would be the next best method.

Hope you're kidding about brass?

Cheers,
Kevin Morin
Kenai, AK