Ed Harrow
06-16-2002, 07:53 PM
Well no picture again. The hard drive is in the process of crashing, I've saved (I think) all of the website, but for reasons known only to MS, I can't open the file now that I've copied it into our other computer...
So, no picture of Finbar in his handsome, blue, Elizabethan collar. No picture of the dumpster Skill 825 now that it's all cleaned up. No picture of my rescued-from-the-trash new workbench. No picture of the progress that I actually did make...
I now have two bits of threaded rod thru keel and gripe (one actually thru a floor as well), with pieces of angle iron to spread the load, and I am begining to take up the gap between the keel and gripe.
This leads to a question: There are several bolts which have resisted all reasonable attempts to remove them. There seem to be two choices. One is to go with another custom-made hole saw, the other is to take the Sawzall, cut the bolts thru the joint, and then drill some new holes and use threaded rod there. Simply tightening the threaded rod does not seem an option as the existing bolts are keeping the surfaces apart.
This may be overkill, but it seems to me that getting this joint tight will help hold things together when the boat gets wiggled and jiggled in the process of removing the ballast.
I'm on the road this week, so be good while I'm away. ;)
[ 06-16-2002, 08:55 PM: Message edited by: Ed Harrow ]
So, no picture of Finbar in his handsome, blue, Elizabethan collar. No picture of the dumpster Skill 825 now that it's all cleaned up. No picture of my rescued-from-the-trash new workbench. No picture of the progress that I actually did make...
I now have two bits of threaded rod thru keel and gripe (one actually thru a floor as well), with pieces of angle iron to spread the load, and I am begining to take up the gap between the keel and gripe.
This leads to a question: There are several bolts which have resisted all reasonable attempts to remove them. There seem to be two choices. One is to go with another custom-made hole saw, the other is to take the Sawzall, cut the bolts thru the joint, and then drill some new holes and use threaded rod there. Simply tightening the threaded rod does not seem an option as the existing bolts are keeping the surfaces apart.
This may be overkill, but it seems to me that getting this joint tight will help hold things together when the boat gets wiggled and jiggled in the process of removing the ballast.
I'm on the road this week, so be good while I'm away. ;)
[ 06-16-2002, 08:55 PM: Message edited by: Ed Harrow ]