[C320-list] re gluing white flat plastic strip?

[Jeff Hare]

Good suggestion.  This stuff often comes in different thicknesses.  If that's a choice get the thickest tape you can find, even if it's wider than you need.  Ours was on a 3" wide roll that I cut narrower to about 1.5" for the hatch.  I put a wide strip on my table saw fence over 10 years ago and it's still showing no signs of coming off.

-Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: C320-list [mailto:c320-list-bounces at lists.catalina320.com] On Behalf Of Karl Mielenhausen
Sent: Wednesday, June 8, 2016 10:37 PM
To: C320IA Discussion List <C320-List at catalina320.com>
Subject: Re: [C320-list] re gluing white flat plastic strip?

Woodworking stores carry glide tape also. Might be a closer option.

Karl

On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 6:47 PM, Allan S Field <allan.field at verizon.net>
wrote:

> Diane - I bought a roll of Japanese Glide Tape in 2009 from Annapolis 
> Performance Sailing.  It comes in a 3/4-inch by 26-foot roll, more 
> than you and everyone you know will ever need!  Total cost with 
> shipping at that time was less than $30.00.  I peeled the old stuff 
> off, cleaned the underneath thoroughly, applied this stuff and it has 
> worked absolutely-perfect in 7 years with no peeling.  Hope this helps!
>
> Allan S. Field
> Sea Shadow - #808
> Columbia, MD
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: C320-list [mailto:c320-list-bounces at lists.catalina320.com] On 
> Behalf Of DianeFlr at aol.com
> Sent: Wednesday, June 8, 2016 6:51 AM
> To: C320-List at Catalina320.com
> Subject: [C320-list] re gluing white flat plastic strip?
>
> 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
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> 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
> >  ———————————————————
> > I work irregular hours and often write emails late  in the evening 
> > and at
> weekends; that doesn’t mean I expect you to do the same;  reply when 
> convenient!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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