[Rhodes22-list] Robert & Roger: - trim rings

[Karen Fiske / Marc Beroz]

Robert:
The process so far has been painless. One port had been installed with
silicone & popped right off. The other was had some type of adhesive
caulking & took just a bit more time to free. Both ports were held in place
by 10 screws that went  through the flange of the port into the fiberglass
skin (cabin side). These screws were about 3/4" long & only went through the
inner skin of the cabin wall. There was no foam or wood between the inner &
outer cabin skins. There was a narrow band of caulking where the port spigot
passed through the outer cabin wall.

I removed the screws and pulled the ports out. Then I just had to lift the
trim rings off (only held in place by silicone or caulk). Took much more
time to clean  the caulking off the ports & fiberglass skin than to do
anything else.

Beckson has installation instructions at www.beckson.com/installport.html

Roger:
Thanks for the link. Beckson's website describes installing trim rings
either with flush mount barrel nuts through the trim rings or just using
silicone with no fasteners through the rings. The latter is certainly easier
& is what my prior installation was, - but it does not seem to be a very
ship-shape way to do things. At this point I'm either going to use silicone
only or use silicone with  pan head screws through the trim rings & outer
skin to hold them in place. I do have any  wood or foam filler between the 2
fiberglass skins & am not planning to put any in. I 'd like to re-install
the rings as GB had done it originally (without fasteners) but I wonder how
I can get a good silicone seal between the ring & fiberglass surface doing
it this way. Apparently both GB & Beckson didn't see it as a problem so
maybe I'm just fretting over  nothing.
Marc