[Public-List] Sail track rivets on mast

[Gordon Laco]

Hi Jeff -   I meant to say that I prefer tapping and screwing... But my own
mast still has the rivets installed when SURPRISE was built.  And I reckon
it is likely that that work was done by my late uncle Conny Costas, who was
the mast maker who built a lot of our rigs in those days.   The rivets in my
mast have lasted well for 43 years.  However, I've seen in many rigs that
once any type of track fastening starts to fail, the stress on the
fastenings adjacent to the failed part fail rapidly due to the unfair stress
placed on them.   Sort of like a zipper on the back of a black cocktail
dress..... Very strong and secure when closed, but once compromised....

Gord #426 Surprise



On 26/03/12 12:59 PM, "Jeffrey" <fongemie at gmail.com> wrote:

> Gord I'd read that you "tapped & screwed", happy with it? Have you seen any
> corrosion?
> 
> -jeff
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> Jeff Fongemie
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> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Gordon Laco <mainstay at csolve.net> wrote:
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>> 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
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>> On 26/03/12 12:44 PM, "Jeffrey" <alberg30nh at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> 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
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>>> Jeff Fongemie
>>> #116 Seagrass
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