Looked at the steel under the floor supporting the compresion post on my H30t and it is rusty is there any way to replace with out ripping out floor. How is the horizontail steel installed.
Steel under compresion post
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Here is a response I posted a while back. It should help. It looks like you have more rust than I did, but the steel tube walls are pretty thick. Are you sure you have to replace it? I don't think you can replace the horizontal portion without tearing up the sole.
http://forums.hunter.sailboatowners.com/showthread.php?p=695563&highlight=compression post
http://forums.hunter.sailboatowners.com/showthread.php?p=695563&highlight=compression post
Okay thanks Larry. Hunter made the 30G and the 30T between 1988 and 1992. The reason I asked is that I have a 1991 30T and I didn't recognize the arrangement under the compression post. Regards, Fred.
The mast itself is 47' or the top of mast is 47' above the waterline? The reason I ask is that I was recently told I have the "tall rig", but see nothing in the owner's manual confirming that. I've seen a '79 Cherubini designed H30 with the chainplates attached to bulkheads rather than the steel tube, but don't know what it's mast height was. Always assumed they just changed the design for some reason between '79 and '82, but maybe the steel tube set up is associated only with the tall rig model.
Anyway, that digresses from your compression post issue. You have exactly the same compression post set up as my '82 H30 ("tall rig"?). Hopefully my sketch helps explain it. Sorry I don't have any idea how to replace that steel without tearing up the sole and a significant portion of the saloon. I hope it doesn't come to that for you.
Anyway, that digresses from your compression post issue. You have exactly the same compression post set up as my '82 H30 ("tall rig"?). Hopefully my sketch helps explain it. Sorry I don't have any idea how to replace that steel without tearing up the sole and a significant portion of the saloon. I hope it doesn't come to that for you.
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