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redeye
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Response Posted - 10/03/2011 :  12:33:05  Show Profile


I'll tell you what, I can't tell you...

I'd have never been able to finish that job without the help of the Grlfrnd and one of my best friends! They were GREAT!
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rrick
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Response Posted - 10/03/2011 :  15:16:27  Show Profile
As a trained chemist, I read labels and asked my mom why she bought a rust remover spray with just this chemical (HF) in it. As a typical consumer, she didn't read the directions and ended up with some nasty burns that could have been worse if safety advocates didn't limit the strength to 1% (still to much for any consumer product, especially an aerosol spray, in my opinion). I kinda figure HF is a prescription only type item. If you can get it in stronger etching strengths, someone in that chain of distribution will lead you to this story http://www.monash.edu.au/ohs/topics/hazard-alerts/hydrofluoric-acid-fatality.html
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Response Posted - 10/03/2011 :  16:22:44  Show Profile
Glad to hear the pin was so easy to remove Ray. I never realized the cast aluminum masthead could corrode/freeze a stainless pin either!

Thanks for sharing this <i>exercise</i>.
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redeye
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Response Posted - 10/04/2011 :  04:39:09  Show Profile
&lt;&lt; cast aluminum masthead could corrode/freeze a stainless pin &gt;&gt;

It ended up that corrosion was not the problem. The mast and backstay took a beating from the mast on the boat next to me in a storm and the backstay made a flat spot in the center of the clevis pin and widened some of the pin. When I cut out the middle with a roto-zip cutting blade on a power drill the ends came out easily.

It destroyed the blade in the process.

Dremel would have probably worked better, but I just put the rotozip on it first.
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redeye
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Response Posted - 10/04/2011 :  04:41:00  Show Profile
Oh.. and as hard as that pin metal is... I can see how people cracked their topmast trying to knock them out. That ain't gonna happen, ya gotta cut them out.

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redeye
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Response Posted - 10/04/2011 :  04:55:18  Show Profile
Kite.. I woke up last night remembering I had told you wrong on the anchor light mounting. I edited my last desc. regarding that process.

Long story short.. I mounted the light on a new post, drilled new mounting holes that matched the old post when I removed it, and put the new post on the mast.

Sorry bout that.
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Response Posted - 10/04/2011 :  08:43:11  Show Profile
I have been in the dumpster and rewired my '82, it makes men out of us! I also put my battery charger in there because of the heat it generates.
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