[Public-List] Sail track rivets on mast

[Jeffrey]

Gord I'd read that you "tapped & screwed", happy with it? Have you seen any
corrosion?

-jeff

Jeff Fongemie
#116 Seagrass

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On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Gordon Laco <mainstay at csolve.net> wrote:

> I'm a believer in tapping in SS machine screws.... But monel rivets, if you
> can find them, would be very good too.
>
> Gord #426 Surprise
>
>
> On 26/03/12 12:44 PM, "Jeffrey" <alberg30nh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I need to do something about the main sail track. I know many of the
> rivets
> > are bad, last season we kept finding rivets heads on the deck!
> >
> > I've read through past messages in the list archives to see what others
> > have done. I can't decide between hunting down monel rivets, tapping for
> SS
> > machine screws or just keeping replacing aluminum with aluminum.  I like
> > the idea of ss machine screws but I'm concerned about corrosion even with
> > the use of products like TefGel.
> >
> > Has there been some newly formed consensus on the subject? Anyone go the
> > machine screw route and find it became a problem due to corrosion of the
> > threads in the aluminum holes?
> >
> > -Jeff
> >
> > Jeff Fongemie
> > #116 Seagrass
> >
> > http://picasaweb.google.com/fongemie
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Jeffrey Fongemie

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