[Public-List] Sail track rivets on mast

[Gordon Laco]

Now I hadn't thought of THAT interpretation.....


On 27/03/12 8:06 AM, "Mike Lehman" <sail_505 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Gord,
> 
> I laughed about your comment about the black cocktail dress...then figured
> it must have come from some personal experience...you're not a
> cross-dresser, are you?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gordon Laco
> Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 1:09 PM
> To: fongemie at gmail.com ; Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all
> Subject: Re: [Public-List] Sail track rivets on mast
> 
> 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
>> 
>> Jeff Fongemie
>> #116 Seagrass
>> 
>> http://picasaweb.google.com/fongemie
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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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