Graham,
Phil Wash....he has a J120 called Philharmonic about 7 slips to the
east of mine at the club. Phil is a retired machinist who has a
complete machine shop in his basement at home.
I was trying for some time to remove the two seized SS stanchion
screws/bolts with a Mastercraft Impact Driver..... I was even hitting
the outside one with a 5 lb. mall....no luck.
Phil was walking from his boat, stopped, asked what was going on. He
looked at the Mastercraft tool, said it was a piece of junk...said he
would bring me one the next day that would do the job with a regular
hammer......it was his Snap On Impact Driver.....he was right....got
both the inside and outside seized screws/bolts loose.
He said even though I got the screws/bolts out of the stanchion, I would
have a hard time separating the stanchion from its base. So he said
take the stanchion base/stanchion off the boat and give it to him.
Three days later the repaired unit was waiting for me in my cockpit. He
also replaced the two SS screws/bolts, one that holds the stanchion in
the base and the inside one that holds the base to the toerail. He
gave me back the bottom 8 inches of the bent old stanchion where you
could easy see the corrosion where it was also seized in the base.
Nice to have dock neighbours that have this kind of expertise,
Rob Abbott
AZURA
C&C 32 - #277
Halifax, N.S.
On 7/8/2020 10:24 PM, Graham Collins wrote:
You have a friend who does free machine shop work for you and replaces
stanchions for nothing? I'd love to meet this person!
Graham Collins
Secret Plans
C&C 35-III #11
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