Dave, I think the 49er mast head fitting is it, for the moment. I made Robs
and my mast using that fitting (although I anodized it). Al and I have been
thinking about something different with something like a halyard lok to make
the mast top softer but it is on the long list who knows when.
Proset to glue the hulls, plexus to glue the track, is good.
We are going through the Catzooks site and other email to compile a Wiki
based knowledge base for the new website. That might help organize data
better. Should be out soon.
G.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Lindsey" <lindsey@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Greg Ryan" <gregoryrryan@xxxxxxxxxxx>; "Mark White"
<mwhite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <swiftsolo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 12:48 PM
Subject: Re: Sail track glue
Mark and Dave, I have a few pieces of track if you just need a small
repair
of a foot or two each. I can just give these to you. I also have a tube
of
plexus, just need to know whether you are doing a whole track, glue the
The plan is to do the whole track with the glue. As for the deck to hull,
I
plan to use epoxy as you suggested. I didn't know this was the same glue.
It
was my impression the track glue was a specific glue.
The dispensing gun I have belongs to Roger. He is very generously loaned
it
to me. He also gave me a tube of glue over a year ago. It consist of a two
parallel tubes, each with a different dia.. Is this the glue? ........I
just
ran down to the garage in my housecoat to retrieve the glue. The tube I
have
says "Pro-Set 175 Resin". This is the deck to hull glue. Right?
So to answer your question; I need enough glue to bond the whole track to
the mast. How much is this?
whole deck to the hull, or a small repair job. For small jobs you don't
want to buy a whole cartridge, so I'm working on getting it aliquoted
into
smaller tubes (valve sealed syringes) the same way I have aliquotted
spartite into 60ml syringe kits and stored them pouch sealed under argon.
So BTW if you need spartite and don't want to spend $120 for $20 dollars
worth of material then let me know. I have at least 10 kits of spartite
in
stock. If there is enough demand for plexus I'll buy a new tube of
Plexus
MA425, to make more kits out of that, how does $25 sound for enough to do
a
track? Let me know what you need.
Oh yes, I will also need enough Spartite to do my CB and Rudder.
Twenty-five
dollars sounds like a steal.
What about the Mast Head. Do you have any? Bram has some 49er Mast heads.
But I question it these are heavier than needed. Any suggestions?
David Lindsey
CAN 046
P.S. I don't know how others are doing with the adding of parts to the
deck.
The manual and the PDF's are comprehensive but there are still data gaps
for
real newbies like me. I have a huge advantage in that Roger and Mike have
their boats close to me. I use these as reference material. Without these
two boats I'd be sunk.
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