[alberg30] Re: Rebedding deck fittings

[Tom Sutherland]

From: Tom Sutherland <tomsu at uky.campus.mci.net>

Bob,

On # 412 the stern toe rail is composed of three separate pieces of teak. The
piece I replaced was the starboard corner. This piece is about 12 or 14 inches
long , a little over than 4 inches wide and appears to be almost one inch thick
........well, when I removed this piece I realized that it was only 9/16" thick
with a 3/8x3/8" piece glued  to the aft bottom edge, extending around the
corner.

I was able to duplicate this piece by using a 5/8" piece of teak and epoxying
the rear edge on prior to cutting it out first on a band saw and then sanding it
down with a random orbital sander. The only joint I had to deal with was a
straight butt joint. I made sure my joint was good before I finished shaping.  I
epoxied up the old holes and drilled new ones when the piece was in place. I did
the final sanding after it was installed.

I sealed it down with polysulfied.


Robert Kirk wrote:

> From: Robert Kirk <kirk at neptune.gsfc.nasa.gov>
>
> At 09:40 14-12-98 -0400, Tom Sutherland wrote:
>
> >Also........About your toe rail , Is it all that bad, or are there just
> some bad
> >sections ?  I replaced a section of mine on the stern and it turned out very
> >good. It was one of those jobs I kept putting off because I was a bit
> leery of
> >doing it but afterwards wondered why I had put it off so long !
> >
> >After removing the bungs and the screws which held it down the section of
> teak
> >rail lifted right off. I was surprised to find that it was sealed only with
> >silicone sealant. I don't know if this is the usual method but it was the
> case
> >with this section which appeared to be original.
>
> Tom  (or anyone who'd like to give advice) ... I have a similar problem,
> to replace two short sections of toe rail.
>
> I assume you used 5/4 teak to get the necessary thickness; I know it's
> expensive and scarce, and I've got some thinner stock, but I can't think of
> a way to use anything thinner unless I laminate it, which probably wouldn't
> work out well.
>
> How did you bend it,  or did  you just shape thicker stock for the small
> curve?
>
> How did you handle the scarfing? I can think of two ways: measure and
> cut the scarf angle hoping to get a good joint, , or remove the adjacent
> good ;piece and then cut to match.
>
> Did you re-bed with silicone, too?
>
> Cheers,
> Bob Kirk
> Isobar #181
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, or to change your subscription
> to digest, go to the ONElist web site, at http://www.onelist.com and
> select the User Center link from the menu bar on the left.






------------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe from this mailing list, or to change your subscription
to digest, go to the ONElist web site, at http://www.onelist.com and
select the User Center link from the menu bar on the left.

 913696165.0