[C320-list] re gluing white flat plastic strip?
DianeFlr at aol.com
DianeFlr at aol.com
Wed Jun 8 03:50:47 PDT 2016
Hey, guys,
I love the excellent advise you all have for me!
Now, the strips where the hatch SLIDES has come up again. Previously, I
glued down with contact cement; but that seems to have dried up.
any suggestions?
thanks again, as usual,
S/V Windy City, hull #948
Captain Diane Fowler,
CRS, GRI, e-PRO
Gulf Coast Realty Network
Cell: 239-850-4935
www.CapeCoralhomes.com
In a message dated 6/7/2016 5:44:53 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
jbrown5093 at yahoo.com writes:
Thanks very much Graeme. Wondered why I couldn't find aft screws. Thought
it might be tacked down there with a little epoxy.
Jim Brrown
Sent from my iPhone
> On Jun 7, 2016, at 4:31 PM, Graeme Clark <cg at skyflyer.co.uk> wrote:
>
> I mentioned in relation to another post that I had managed to do this
and was asked to detail how to do it - useful if you need to easily access
the fuel tank and also - as I found - it makes replacing the hoses or filler
points for water and fuel (or bilge pump hoses) a whole lot easier if the
shelf is removed!
>
> There’s no big secret - it is just a bit fiddly! The shelf lies on
forward and aft battens that lie athwart-ships. As you look down the screws
that are holding the shelf to the forward batten are obvious but the rear of
the shelf is hidden by the return on the transom that forms the sugar scoop,
making it seemingly impossible to get to those screws.
>
> In fact the screws that hold the shelf to the rear batten are inserted
from below. This requires some dexterity and contortion but it is possible
for even a sizeable chap such as me (6ft 4 and 210 pounds) to crawl through
the hatch from the aft cabin and wiggle around the rudder post to reach
the screws.
>
> Having undone them you can then remove the two halves of the shelf -
the outboard one is easiest to remove first - by a combination of lifting,
twisting and turning. Its a bit fiddly but it IS do-able.
>
> By the way I found that I had to remove the retro-fitted rudder
reference unit that was not part of the original kit on the boat, which obstructed
the inner forward corner of the shelf. It was easily refitted afterwards.
>
> Once the shelf is out it is so much easier to work in the rear
lazarette/locker as you can literally sit on the bottom of the hull (either on
port-side or on starboard side, outside the fuel tank) with your legs
horizontal behind the rudder post and you then have good access to all the kit and
fittings.
>
> Hope this is of some use
>
> Graeme
> #366 Jaskar, 1996
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