Video Transcript for CE Smith Bolster Bracket Spec Review

Hi everybody, Andy here with etrailer.com, and today, we're gonna take a look at the CE Smith Galvanized Steel Bolster Bracket. Now, bolster brackets are typically mounted upright on a boat's trailer's crossmembers. When used with a swivel bracket, they allow a mounted bunk board which is run from the front of the trailer to the back to pivot. While you are loading a boat on kayak trailers, these brackets are mounted to the trailer's frame and support bunk boards that run across the trailer. This rust resistant bolster bracket help support one bunk board on your boat trailer when used with a swivel bracket. Two brackets are required per bunk board, so an additional bracket would be sold separately, and the dimpled surface helps prevent the bracket from sliding along the trailer's frame, and these mounting slots permit as much as 3 3/4 of an inch of height adjustment during installation.

Now, the bracket, as we mentioned, installs vertically on your boat trailer's frame with a U-bolt, and this is made in the USA of 11-gauge galvanized steel that's going to resist rust and corrosion. By the way, galvanized steel parts are hot-dipped in zinc after being stamped, so this creates a coating that is typically three millimeters to five millimeters thick, and this thick all around coating allows galvanized steel products to provide years of use without rusting or corroding, so this will be suitable for saltwater exposure. Again, you are gonna get one bracket, and let me retrieve my ruler here and give you some overall dimensions. The overall height is 10 inches tall, and looking at the overall width, we're sitting right at about 2 1/2 inches wide, and then the mounting slot dimensions, we're gonna be sitting right at 3 3/4 inches long, and that's gonna be on both of these mounting slots, and then the slots themselves are right at about a half an inch wide. And then if you're wanting to know the spacing between the mounting slots, we are sitting right at half an inch between those two mounting slots.

And the swivel hole diameter is going to be a half an inch. Again, that's the swivel bracket mounting hole diameter, half an inch. Now, if you're in need of U-bolts, swivel brackets, or bunk boards, be sure to check out our website here at etrailer.com, and we have a variety of parts that will no doubt meet the needs that you are looking to obtain. Well, that's gonna conclude our look today, I do hope that this was helpful for you. Again, my name is Andy, thank you for joining me..