[C320-list] Glide tape - SECOND REQUEST

[Mike Paris]

Jack,
I think I was able to get it all but I'll have to look. I know it was fairly 
simple to do the whole job.

Mike
#734

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jack McDonough" <mcdonough5 at verizon.net>
To: <C320-List at Catalina320.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2009 2:29 PM
Subject: Re: [C320-list] Glide tape - SECOND REQUEST


> Mike, Karl and Irv:
>
> Thank you. I would rather not mess with the tape, either, but it came 
> loose at the cockpit end a few years ago and we keep taping it down. Not a 
> good solution and it doesn't look great. I guess, then, that I could 
> simply replace it as far back as I can without removing the slider, which, 
> to me, seems impossible.
>
> And, Mike, if you replaced it without removing the hatch slider, were you 
> able to get to the very end?
>
> jack
> #947
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mike Paris" <mparis495 at gmail.com>
> To: <C320-List at Catalina320.com>
> Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2009 1:43 PM
> Subject: Re: [C320-list] Glide tape - SECOND REQUEST
>
>
>>I replaced mine without removing the hatch
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Sep 27, 2009, at 1:33 PM, "Karl Mielenhausen _/)" <c320 at suddenlink.net
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Jack,
>>>
>>> I have not done this (yet) as I have no interest in breaking and 
>>> replacing a perfectly good seal until I have to (or it isn't), 
>>> Therefore I have used Irv's technique in repacing my tape.
>>> If you do chose to remove the hatch cover however, I suggest you  attach 
>>> the tape to the slider instead of the rails. That way it is  less 
>>> subject to damage as you climb up and down the companionway.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Karl
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:43:32 -0400, Jack McDonough 
>>> <mcdonough5 at verizon.net
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Having received no responses from my first query, I'm trying again. 
>>>> Here's the question:
>>>>
>>>> The existing glide tape on the main hatch slider extends forward, 
>>>> under slider. Is
>>>> there some way to remove the slider to gain access to end of the 
>>>> tape -- so
>>>> that the existing tape can be removed and the new tape installed?
>>>>
>>>> I saw several responses regarding places to buy the tape. Hasn't 
>>>> anyone actually replaced it?
>>>>
>>>> Jack
>>>> #947
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Karl Mielenhausen
>>> Catalina 320 Hull 690
>>> New Bern, NC
>