Galley sink

[Rich (P303)]

I just have to share this with you...There I was just trying to replace a galley faucet. A seemingly impossible task as I am not double-jointed nor a midget.Well… I figured I would have a better chance if I removed the deep sink… so I could actually see what I was doing. Presto… the sink came out no problem, wing nuts and clips hitting the floor.This is going GREAT! Went down to HD and picked up a bar style sink… not that I am a heavy drinker mind you, however the faucet swings out of the way so you can get a 10” pot into the 8” sink.Existing plumbing had some sort of quick connect… man this is going to be EASY. Hooked the new faucet up… put a bed up plumber’s putty around the sink and dropped her in, hooked the waste back up. The only thing left was to attach the sink to the countertop with the 4 clips that fell out during removal.Well when your lying on your back… stuffed in a 12” hole with a droplight blinding you… things can get testy. Especially when you can only get one hand up there to do two tasks simultaneously! You just about have it… when you drop the clip or wing nut… hits you in the glasses and rolls just out of sight… so you have to crawl back out of the hole you spent 5 minutes getting into.Normally every 4-letter word would come out of my mouth and tools would be flying. However there were no tools in there… because I couldn’t reach them, and besides they would have only got thrown 12” before landing on me anyway.I decided to take a different tack for the first time in my adult life. When the nut or clip dropped I laughed... cause this was an absolutely futile task anyway. Then I wondered…. How did the install this originally?Well after this happened 4 or 5 times… I was laughing so hard I had to climb out on my own. Only 3 more corners to go! I was actually having a good time?!?!?!The next 3 went much easier and by feel alone!I guess it’s all about the attitude!I am really looking forward to the next project!

 

[Ross]

Been there. Got the tee shirt. And the scrapes.

That's one of the things I do for a living. If it was easy everybody would do it and I would have to find a new way to make a living, ;D

 

[sailaway78]

I too

have done stuff like this for a living,for a lot of years. Have never got to the point of laughing though, but it sounds like it would be better than cussing and throwing stuff all over.

 

[Roger (Ninette Manitoba)]

One of the more enjoyable non sailing things I do on my boat

is to figure out ways of getting hard (or seemingly impossible tasks) done. One task in particular is how to effect repairs in hard to reach places. I call these types of tasks 'crawling around inside the boat'. As you suggest, it would appear that these boats are manufactured by little people with five foot arms and a light in the middle of their forehead.Just a hint though. A lot of fixtures are applied to a deck, cocpit or cabin pan before the separate layers deck/cockpit, cabin/sole and hull/liner are sandwiched together. In really tight or impossible spots I have had to purchase and install relatively inexpensive inspection ports to get at these repairs. Of course having the ability to go back in there virtually guarantees that you will never have to, but at least its there.If you can have fun on your boat, even when you are not sailing it, you have doubled your pleasure!

 

[Tim R.]

Hey Rich

Ripping out the old sink and faucet in my Ericson was easy. When installing the new faucet I thought it would be a real pain to remove the sink to get access to the faucet if I needed to so I had 4 SS 3/8 bolts welded to the corners of the sink. I can reach in blind to start the nuts and then use a deep socket with extension to snug them. Adhesive, closed cell, foam sealing tape will be the gasket.

 

[Rich (P303)]

Tim...

Actually the sink had some welded studs on the corners... it was the dumb-a** clips and wingnuts and lack of space that posed the problem. Foam tape idea seems to be a plus.

 

[Scott]

wing nuts

try putting some petroleum jelly on the studs. works great holding the wingnuts on while trying get the threads aligned. Like some things, it took me many times of dropped wignuts to figure it out.

 

[Rich (P303)]

Ahhh

the French in me would have figured it out if I was in there for 2 days!Good food for thought.

 

[steve rainey]

sinks

if the sink sets nice and flat, rather than dealing with the wing nuts, some adhesive cocking works mighty fine...

 

[Rich (P303)]

I thought about that Steve...

My luck... when I have to take the sink back out (because the faucet is leaking) I would end up ripping the formica top out with it!Boy... the faucet looks great! Kind of makes the 25 year old sink look shotty. Probably should have replaced that too.... but then the counter would have looked old and tired.Should have left everything the way it was.

 

[letterman]

too funny

First..."...some cocking adhesive..." reminded me of the limerick with library paste.Second...you just discovered the best strategy of life. Dr. Randy Pauch has been on and in the news lately. He is dying of pancreatic cancer. Want to find out what life is about? It's how you deal with brick walls. Your brick wall was the part you kept dropping. Mine is finding a job. I was like you. RARELY tossed a tool. I just got upset. My ex-brother in l;aw was a tool tosser. Still is. One day we were making a storage shed from scratch and the kids came out, three girls. They wanted to help. He screamed. Being much bigger, and stronger (even though he was on roids for arthritis), when I told him to shut up he listened. I gave the girls hammers and nails and set them to work. They gave up before the first nail was set. I said "See? Problem solved. No muss, no fuss."I increased production in a Union shop by 60% using the same attitude. They responded...albeit very slowly. Then one day I walked into my office and there was a chalk outline on the floor. I busted a gut laughing and so did they. I laughed when they used a whole roll of duct tape to seal my coffee thermos. Life is about....who knows. Just remember to pass what you now have on. Makes golf a whole lot more fun.

 

[Rich (P303)]

Golf

... who has time for that?The more I play... the worse I get.