Ending my hijack of Mr. Bugner's Sea Hood thread
I've put in about 6 hours of work trying to remove the 20+ screws in the old Schaefer traveler. I have just one more screw left in the starboard side of the seahood before I can remove the track and channel. That one is a bugger because the RT tool can't get in there unless I lift the seahood on that side. No other form of persuasion has worked so far. At least it turns. Many of them had to have the impact tool treatment to free them from the 5200 and the plastic inserts. On others the nut was loose and I used to tool to get them to where I could spin them off with my fingertip.
At the extreme opposite end the two screws that go into just the channel, no nuts, are pretty frozen. I put a little spray-on CRC type lubricant on them to see if that will help.
Thinking about replacement of the track, I'll be using the Harken high profile with the slot for the screws. That means I shouldn't have to fill and re-drill a lot of holes in the seahood. I haven't seen any good pics on the website of whether to use a plate under the track to spread the load across the seahood and at the ends. I suppose the folks at Fisheries can advise me, but I wonder what others have done on the E38, especially the Harken? The channel in the attached photo is doing that job, but I don't want to go back on with something that traps garbage the way that does.
The RT tool works great, though.
I've put in about 6 hours of work trying to remove the 20+ screws in the old Schaefer traveler. I have just one more screw left in the starboard side of the seahood before I can remove the track and channel. That one is a bugger because the RT tool can't get in there unless I lift the seahood on that side. No other form of persuasion has worked so far. At least it turns. Many of them had to have the impact tool treatment to free them from the 5200 and the plastic inserts. On others the nut was loose and I used to tool to get them to where I could spin them off with my fingertip.
At the extreme opposite end the two screws that go into just the channel, no nuts, are pretty frozen. I put a little spray-on CRC type lubricant on them to see if that will help.
Thinking about replacement of the track, I'll be using the Harken high profile with the slot for the screws. That means I shouldn't have to fill and re-drill a lot of holes in the seahood. I haven't seen any good pics on the website of whether to use a plate under the track to spread the load across the seahood and at the ends. I suppose the folks at Fisheries can advise me, but I wonder what others have done on the E38, especially the Harken? The channel in the attached photo is doing that job, but I don't want to go back on with something that traps garbage the way that does.
The RT tool works great, though.