She is certainly testing me, but I do love her and that won't change.@HanBan I often think that the part that won’t come off I has a mind of it’s own... But I have now revised that mistaken idea. It is really the boat. She is testing you. Will you immediately breakout the hammer and crash away or will you seek a persistence approach going at it a little at a time coaxing the offending part off the boat. Like removing a barnacle. You want the barnacle to want to leave as smashing it only makes a bigger mess.
Start with @Mechone approach heating the part so as to heat the glue. Then gentle work a thin putty knife around all of the part where ever you see the glue. If you can get the part to start to pull away this might give you the space to try the piano wire. My suspicion is that once heated you will have success with the putty knife.
The test your boat is giving you will be repeated. It is to see if you will stick with her when the storm waters attack in the middle of the night. Or will you abandon her to Davy Jones.
Persistence.
This sounds like a good plan, but I've never used a heat gun before. With my luck, I'd set the boat on fire.5200 will release with a heat gun , I changed out 2 transducers and 3 thru hulls and other peoples boats done with 5200 no problem ,just keep it moving and heat the fitting more than the glass ,use common sense not to burn gel coat.
Should mention as you heat the fitting ,get someone on the inside of boat to start pushing on the fitting working it using a piece of wood ,it will come out
with no damage to glass
David, I was getting so frustrated with this little repair job that I'd gladly just replace the innards to this fitting. I've gone to a bunch of electrical stores in the area and none of them have the correct receptacle.You might find that you don't actually need to replace the whole outer cover to fix the broken pins. We just had a problem with one of the wires inside ours breaking off the other day. We were able to just take off the screws on the inside of the fitting, and then pull out the whole "guts" without moving the cover.
Sorry to hear that. Our Marina chandlery said they could order the inner part, then we found a place a few towns away with it in stock.David, I was getting so frustrated with this little repair job that I'd gladly just replace the innards to this fitting. I've gone to a bunch of electrical stores in the area and none of them have the correct receptacle.
This is something I'm learning. Often it seems to be an argument, but I always lose.Yeah.
Unfortunately boat work is all about compromise.
I just looked up Rick D's good suggestion of DeBond. It is nail polish remover, in mineral oil, with some smell good stuff and a cleaning agent. The rest is a trade secret.I'm going to wait for some solvent to spray
Jim,I just looked up Rick D's good suggestion of DeBond. It is nail polish remover, in mineral oil, with some smell good stuff and a cleaning agent. The rest is a trade secret.
I am not saying don't get it, but its claims are pretty good about 5200 bond killing.
Jim...
Just get proper connections into place. Be sure you have them adequately insulated. Then Go Sailing.... You can do the upgrade come winter.Perhaps at the end of the year when she's hauled out I'll give it another go.
Nah, still no mast. I don't want to keep bugging the lovely lady at beneteau about it because I don't think she can do anything about the backordered masts with US Spars. Apparently they are all backed up for all the damage that was done in the Caribbean last year.Just get proper connections into place. Be sure you have them adequately insulated. Then Go Sailing.... You can do the upgrade come winter.
Has the mast arrived yet?