Keel lifting winch adapter socket wrench adapter tool

Keel lifting winch adapter socket wrench adaptor tool

Customized keel lifting winch adapter using a standard hex socket

Our customer needed a little bit more height on their keel lifting mechanism and they came up with this tool adaption idea, using standard socket wrench parts..

Socket adapter tool for boat sail winch before machining

We were given the components above and were asked to put them together to be used to raise and lower a keel on a yacht.

Socket adapter tool for boat sail winch before machining aligned

We needed to machine the bigger socket so it could press fit into the smaller socket making it a perfect centralized fit

Socket adapter tool machined to size ready for press fit

The bigger socket above is the machined socket prior to press fitting and below the two parts have been press fit together with a perfect fit

Socket wrench adapter tool tig welded to other part

We then tig welded round the joint making the component as one

Ref: E7766