[C320-list] Traveler Mounting Screws

[Warren Updike]

Re: penetrating oil. A friend of mine whose advice I trust highly told me
that a study at MIT by students compared several products used to cut frozen
bolts. They concluded that a mixture of acetone and ATF, 50/50, was just as
effective and in some cases more effective then the store products tested,
and much less expensive.

Warren and Pattie Updike
1994 C320 "Warr de Mar" #62

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Hare [mailto:Catalina at thehares.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2015 8:43 AM
To: C320-List at Catalina320.com
Subject: Re: [C320-list] Traveler Mounting Screws

Larry, 

Take your time here.  Over the course of a week or so, drip some corrosion
cutting/penetrating oil on the screw.  Then you can break it free.  A good
impact drill may do a great job of freeing this without breaking the bolt.
The other good option if you don't need to remove the traveler bolts except
to fix the leak, just drip some "Captain Tolleys Creeping Crack Cure" on the
screw heads and let that siphon in and seal the bolts.  Choose one or the
other.  

My recommendation is to break the bolt free if you can and fix it properly
because the leak may not be from the bolt head, but from where the traveler
unit meets the deck.  When you put the screws back in, use a countersink
drill bit to chamfer the screw hole in the gelcoat, use butyl tape and coat
the bolt threads with TefGel anti corrosion grease which will both form a
waterproof seal on the threads and prevent any corrosion from forming so
they will be possible to remove for the next 20 years.

-Jeff Hare
#809  "Lightning Rod"  (formerly Woodbine II)   :-)

-----Original Message-----
From: C320-list [mailto:c320-list-bounces at lists.catalina320.com] On Behalf
Of Larry Frank
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2015 7:34 AM
To: C320-List at Catalina320.com
Subject: Re: [C320-list] Traveler Mounting Screws

Thank you Chris and Warren.  You have confirmed what I feared.  One of the
mounting bolts is leaking.  Not a big leak, but enough to cause corrosion
between the SS bolt and aluminum mounting plate.  I am thinking that getting
out this screw will be next to impossible in order to fix the problem.

Larry
WindSwept
C320 #246  

On 7/16/15, 8:54 PM, "Larry Frank" <WindSwept at stx.rr.com> wrote:

>No responses which is strange for this group.  Let me try again.  Can 
>anyone answer my question regarding the mounting screws for the traveler?
>
>Larry
>
>On 7/13/15, 9:19 PM, "Larry Frank" <WindSwept at stx.rr.com> wrote:
>
>>Are these screws secured by an aluminum plate that is laid up in the 
>>fiberglass coach roof or are they secured by the nuts that extend all 
>>the way through the liner?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Larry
>>WindSwept
>>#230 #246
>>
>>
>
>