You my friend, are a beast. A mystical creature with an inordinate amount of inherent (and developed) skill and natural talent. Truly a legend in your own time...
You might have to heat the living daylights out of the bolt to get it out. Not hot enough to draw off any of its temper of course, but heat it up to 250°F or so and use the BFH to lay a good solid smack on your punch/drift. That couple hundred degrees of difference will ease a half thou of tightness out of that pin bore.
Break Out Another Thousand
That's what BOAT stands for....
Confucius say "Boat is a hole in the water that fool throws money into."
Kidding aside, that's a really nice boat!
We're glad to have you! I have a few years of experience as a Machinist Tool & Die Maker under my belt, so I love machining and machine projects and parts and the industry in general.
Welcome to the forum! As stated in response to your other thread, it's OK to post a link to your site as long as it's not being spammed all over the forum. When your website/business becomes a commercial success, don't forget us.
I'll make an executive decision to allow it as germaine to the thread overall. Assuming you become more successful in your future endeavors, please think of us when you're prepared to be a forum sponsor.
Sure enough! I misread that linked page rather badly, you're absolutely right. Bad math was the result of terrible reading comprehension in this case, I stand corrected!