Seaflo Deck Plate for Boats - 4" Diameter - White

Video Transcript for Review of Seaflo Boat Accessories - Deck Plates - SE83FR

Ellen: Hey everyone, I'm Ellen here at etrailer.com and we're going to be taking a quick look at the Sea Flow Deck Plate. This allows you to have access into an otherwise hard to get to area. You can use this for an RV, for your boat, or really anywhere that you want to have a nice access point. For RVs, this can make it pretty easy to put a cord or a hose through an area where you otherwise would have to go in a different direction. So it can help to alleviate some strain and stress being put on that cord or hose and help you to get where you need to go without it causing any issues. So let's take a closer look and talk about some of the measurements to make sure that this is the right fit for your application.

It is just going to be a deck plate with the lid there.So if you want this to be a water tight design, you would need to add something to the back, like a grommet, maybe some foam or even butyl tape, especially if you really want it to be super waterproof. That way, if you put butyl tape around the edge here, as you put any screws through this, it's going to draw that butyl tape down and make sure that the hardware isn't going to be an access point for any water to get into the area, so that's something to consider. We do have a lot of options for butyl tape here at etrailer.com. That is B-U-T-Y-L, butyl tape. It's hard to know how to spell that from just hearing it.

So if that's something that interests you, you can find that here. As far as the size of this deck plate, the cutout would need to be about four and a half inches in diameter.Outside edge to outside edge, it's about five and five eighths of an inch. The overall thickness is about an inch, maybe an inch and an eighth, although the portion that would actually stick up above the surface would only be about a quarter of an inch. So pretty low profile so that you can put in an area even that people will be stepping over without it really being too much of a tripping hazard. You definitely want to make sure though, if you're going to be putting into that area that you use counter sunk bolts or something that's going to have a flat top design.

These have that tapered opening to allow for a tapered Flathead screw to go in and sit nice and flush. So again, that does not come with this, you would have to find some on your own and the holes, about three sixteenths in diameter. There are six in total, the distance between those mounting holes center to center is about five inches.If we open up the door, the size of an object that can fit in here, so if you're trying to put anything solid in there, it can allow about four inches of anything to go inside. This same deck plate is also available in black, has all the same features, made with that same ABS plastic construction and you can also find that here at etrailer.com if you prefer it to come in black. But that's pretty much all there is to it for our look at the Sea Flow Deck Plate.

I hope this has been helpful in deciding if this is the right part for you. We do have a lot of accessories for your RVs and boats right here at etrailer.com, so check them out. Thanks for watching.