Stanchions and the the leaks

[Steve Dion]

Now Justin....

Justin:What do WE think he would have said about Dow, GE, Life or Sika products. "Oh, they are actually better, but we get much more shelf space, that is why our products are more popular." <g>I have to say, that everyone should use the product that works for their situation. I may just be a little more selective when it comes to some of these products.What I have decided is that I am going to pull all of the hardware that is not attached with backing plates and remount them this season. This is a great job for the spring time. Nice warm (not hot) days with a few cool ones to sip on. This will also give me a good chance to service any of this hardware at the same time.So I think that this was a great exchange of ideas. I will probably start looking at products a little different than before too.

 

[Sean Herron...herrons@telus.net]

From the shop...

Hello,I am just going to be a bugger and drop two cents into this pot...I built small power cruisers for 5 years, then very large ones (58 to 120 ft) for same...Some tactics...the smaller boats came back for factory upgrades...all stanchions where bedded in 5200 and cleaned with acetone before setting...all areas in heavy UV - we used Rule and same...trick for getting old fittings off is to use a 'garotting' wire of thin Stainless to cut it off, heat it up if need be...Most builders just drill thru the core, but a few go oversize, epoxy plug, then redrill...adds to the selling price though, plywood is mostly used to core and rather bad for end grain seepage, balsa very nice, but price restrictive, foam same...Perfection is simply the level of compromise that you can afford...SH.

 

[David]

Sean

Thanks, good to hear from someone who is knowledgeable from experience.

 

[Sean Herron...herrons@telus.net]

Friends in the Bizz...

Hello,I just had a date with my toilet bowl...you stand up and think you got it beat...but it just won't die...damn Rhino virus...There a lot of places to get good info...Other than here...you can look at boatbuilding.com...Another straight from the horse, who has found a way to make more money web building, rather than boat building is Captain (a real one) Patrick McCrary...I think he can still be found at his site usamarine.net...or ICQ...Also, although its expensive and prohibitively aggressive, I have always found Sikaflex to be an all around product, white for white, black for black (window frames)...seen boats come back after sitting in UV for years with no chalking, shrinkage, or structural separation...It is aggressive, but can be garrotted...which I do so not to peel up the gelcoat from around old holes...not to say the idea came to me on the day I tried to gorilla a fitting and ended up having to colour match same...Sika makes a lot of strange things from petrifiedpetrolgoop, one division being marine sealants...Its fun to bond aluminum to glass with this stuff...without mechanical fastenings and do some destructive testing with fat guys on rope tackles...we pulled a welded tang off its welds before the goop failed...pissed the welder off...Its one of those 'when in doubt' goop miracles...Time for some NyQuil and whisky...SH.

 

[Sean Herron...herrons@telus.net]

History of Marine Sealants

Hello,A fictional tale...Back in 1972, at the Goodyear tire factory in Michigan, there was a fat guy named Bob who was particularly good at stacking tires into bundled piles on a skid. Bob had a teenage son, Wayne, who was a pretty bright kid, but seemed to have a few habits and strange behaviors that Bob really did not understand. One day, Bobs boss mentioned a company college sponsorship program to Bob. Bob replied that he was too old to go back to school. His boss told him that he was thinking about his son. Bob said, oh...So off Wayne goes to MIT where he now has access to a fully stocked chemistry lab. Now this being the early 70’s, can you the reader guess what Wayne on a ‘free ride’ scholarship did with his time and access to this fully stocked chemistry lab... Do you think Wayne actively pursued his dream of creating a never seen before, solve all your problems in one product, make a fortune on patents, and retire at 35, marine adhesive and sealant...No, Wayne was swapping LSD recipes with his professors...So we all had to wait until the mid 80’s for someone else, who had gotten his girlfriend pregnant while on Wayne’s LSD, to wake up one day and realize that he now had some real responsibilities and had better put his nose to the grindstone and solve the big marine sealant question...And he did...So now we no longer have to live in a world where it is cool to drive around in a fishtailing lime green muscle car, with purple vinyl seats, nor do we have to sail Mexican white sand beaches in bright yellow-hulled thingies, and we have all realized that cotton blends really are better...Most importantly though, we can now make a hole in boat water tight, without having to give it too much thought...This is your brain, and this is your brain on NyQuil and good whisky, any questions...SH.

 

[Harry A.]

Sean, I want to test.....

...some of that NyQuil your using. Mine never gave me those kind of thoughts.

 

[Chris Gonzales]

This place is getting....

....as wierd as a Harley rider's newsgroup!