[C320-list] galley sink replacement

[Mike Shoffner]

I have a small pin hole leak from corrosion in my 1994 vintage sink and looked into how to replace the sink, though it remains on my to do list.  I spoke with Catalina parts and they no longer use this sink.  They directed me to catalinadirect.com where they have a double sink on their website that looks like it's the same as ours, but I never went further in my research to see if the size is actually a match.  One difficulty in the replacement is that my, and I presume your, sink is an "under mount", and the Catalina parts guy indicated it would be nearly impossible to remove.  He suggested the solution is to cut the old sink out using a metal cutting blade on a Dremmel tool as close as possible to the counter top then installing the new sink as an "over mount".  This sonds like it would work, though I have no experience with cutting stainless steel with a Dremmel tool.  In the end I opted for a bandaid fix of the leak which is holding for
 now.  Any thoughts?

Mike Shoffner
#171




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From: MARTIN and SUSAN RAPHAEL <mraphael at q.com>
To: c320-list at catalina320.com
Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 5:02:29 PM
Subject: [C320-list] galley sink replacement


I would like to replace the galley sink in our 1994 model -- one thing I don't like about it is that the drain is raised a bit so you can't really drain the sink by gravity alone and water at the bottom until sponged out.  I believe the newer models don't have this issue.  Does anyone know where to obtain a relacement?  And if anyone else has done a replacement, any hints about how best to tackle the job?  

Martin Raphael

Rhapsody #108