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- Wed Nov 04, 2015 2:01 am
- Forum: Boat maintenance, repair and restoration
- Topic: Autumnal sealant rage
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9290
Re: Autumnal sealant rage
Most modern sealants are moisture curing. If the tube has a cap, remove the nozzle and use it!. If its a gun cartridge you are probably S.O.L. but you could try pouring some candlewax down the ass end of the tube and rolling it around then tipping out the excess to reseal the piston and cap the end ...
- Tue Sep 15, 2015 12:17 am
- Forum: Boat maintenance, repair and restoration
- Topic: New floorboards
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5033
Re: New floorboards
.... but too slippery as-is! You will need either a final coat of deck paint on the top surface or to use a non-skid additive. If you go with the deck paint, it may be worth keeping it 1" away from the ply edges and where the seat support struts rest so you can easily see if the varnish has bee...
- Wed Jul 08, 2015 12:02 am
- Forum: Boat maintenance, repair and restoration
- Topic: Cleaning wood grain
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6168
Re: Cleaning wood grain
Most self polishing and eroding antifoulings use xylene as the thinners and are often colophony resin based. Try naptha, outdoors, away from naked flames and ALL other ignition sources. However, even if you dissolve all the base resin the pigment and copper oxide biocide are likely to still be embed...
- Sun Apr 12, 2015 11:13 pm
- Forum: Boat maintenance, repair and restoration
- Topic: A couple of little jobs on Finn K60...
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9587
Re: A couple of little jobs on Finn K60...
I wouldn't expect a thin layer of Sikaflex or similar used for fairing to stay put very well. Anything rubbing on the feather edge will probably cause it to peel back unless you apply it to still tacky G4 then overcoat with the same while the sealent is still at the 'green' cure stage. The original ...
- Sat Apr 11, 2015 1:03 pm
- Forum: Boat Chat
- Topic: Has April 1st come round again?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6563
Re: Has April 1st come round again?
That has 5th November written all over it. It looks too far gone for 'flowerbed'.and anything useful appears to have already vanished. The prognosis might be different if its #1 of the class or otherwise provably of historic interest, although I suspect the restoration would have a certain ship of T...
- Sat Apr 11, 2015 12:52 pm
- Forum: Boat maintenance, repair and restoration
- Topic: Luff groove (this time alloy mast!)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 10395
Re: Luff groove (this time alloy mast!)
Be glad we are dealing with dinghies and keelboats here which are extremely unlikely to have any significant amount of flexible plumbing as the possibilities for innuendo and coarse humour when you need to get a somewhat too tight reinforced hose over a hose tail on a pump or whatever are extreme, e...
- Fri Apr 10, 2015 3:18 am
- Forum: Boat maintenance, repair and restoration
- Topic: A couple of little jobs on Finn K60...
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9587
Re: A couple of little jobs on Finn K60...
Machine screws can be removed from Epoxy if they are brand new with no thread defects and are coated with a thin even layer of paraffin wax before installation in the wet epoxy. However it does weaken the bond a bit. One trick if you want a reinforced thread is to wet out some kevlar roving and worm...
- Thu Apr 02, 2015 11:31 am
- Forum: Boat Chat
- Topic: who fancies a game of What's This?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 13069
Re: who fancies a game of What's This?
Yes, I'm surprised how long my original 3mm D12 lasted. I changed it a couple of years ago as it was looking a little tatty. It was still plenty strong enough and I could have end-for-ended it, but couldn't be ar**d to unpick the stopper knot inside the drum shaft and the very tight double anchor be...
- Thu Apr 02, 2015 10:51 am
- Forum: Boat Chat
- Topic: who fancies a game of What's This?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 13069
Re: who fancies a game of What's This?
Its not just kickers that can benefit from a drum winch. They offer a lot of mechanical advantage in a very small space and are far more efficient and less hassle than a muscle box. They also have a lot of travel for a tackle that powerful. I reckon the Holt Allen one was about 10:1 (by measuring ra...
- Mon Mar 09, 2015 1:45 am
- Forum: Boat maintenance, repair and restoration
- Topic: Standing rigging, Talurit etc etc
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6595
Re: Standing rigging, Talurit etc etc
Aluminium ferrules are for galvanised wire. One should always use bronze ferrules on stainless wire. Someone used th wrong parts way back when - Result: rampant electrolytic corrosion and a failure waiting to happen.
- Mon Feb 09, 2015 4:32 pm
- Forum: Boat maintenance, repair and restoration
- Topic: Rust marks...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7702
Re: Rust marks...
Any Oxalic acid based gelcoat cleaner will get the rust off both the stainless and the GRP. Its best to go for the gel type rather than powder as you don't want any abrasives. Heavy rust stains will require repeated applications. Use any good brand of metal polish on the stainless and GRP polish on ...
- Tue Jan 13, 2015 6:53 am
- Forum: Boat Chat
- Topic: Wayfarer advice needed
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8357
Re: Wayfarer advice needed
Back in the days when transom sheeting was the usual thing, Wayfarers usually had 3:1 mainsheets with the dead end on a becket on the upper single block and a fiddle block for the lower - autoratchet of the owner was well-off. If winds were light, the dead end could be removed from the becket and ma...
- Sun Jan 11, 2015 2:08 pm
- Forum: Boat Chat
- Topic: weighted dagger board.
- Replies: 23
- Views: 19681
Re: weighted dagger board.
Early Albacores had metal plates. I fitted one in my 60's boat for coastal cruising and was entirely satisfied with the boat's handling and performance with one. Obviously its not good for sheltered inland waters racing though. A good setup to control one is a Holt Alllen drum winch (for kicking str...
- Sun Dec 21, 2014 1:36 pm
- Forum: Boat maintenance, repair and restoration
- Topic: Hanging boats up
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8687
Re: Hanging boats up
What you can get away with to suspend a boat for maintenance in benign summer weather often isn't advisable for long term winter storage. You *MUST* be certain the joists or rafters are strong enough to carry the extra load considering the loading on the floor above or design snow and wind loads on ...
- Sat Nov 29, 2014 4:25 pm
- Forum: Boat maintenance, repair and restoration
- Topic: Glued clinker, hot air guns and a little leak
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8318
Re: Glued clinker, hot air guns and a little leak
Common modern glues (e.g. Epoxy or Polyurethane) soften significantly at elevated temperatures and loose much of their strength. West System say "damaging heat" for their epoxy is prolonged exposure to temperatures over 110 deg C, and below that temperature it will regain full strength whe...