Re: OMC parts search – does this part exist?

[David Stanton]

Could you take a bracket without the "pointy tip", drill and tap it and then machine a pointy tip to fit? Maybe you could make a pointy tip by cutting the head off a bolt, putting it in a drill press and making the point with a file while it spins – screw it into your tapped hole in the casting and put a nut on the bolt to lock it at the desired dimension? Or drill the hole for a slip fit for the bolt and put nuts on each side of the hole? If the non tipped bracket has a big enough chunk of metal in the right place this should work. Comments??
Dave