[Rhodes22-list] Sealant

[Daniel Johnson]

stan's advice seems to be exactly what ought to be done, except the nuts for
the hand rail are not easily accessible (at least on my boat).

Dan

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:08 PM, cowie <ccowie at cowieassociates.com> wrote:

>
> Thanks for the article.  My new R22 has a slight rain leak on the port side
> where the hand rail connects thru the cabin top.  The following is what
> stan
> told me that might be helpful to you.
>
>
> > the real way to really solve a rain leak (notice we cleverly omit rain
> > leaks
> > form the guarantees) is to back off on the nuts and remove (or in this
> > case
> > raise) the hardware part and put sealant around the fastener -But then
> > only
> > lightly set it back in place until the sealant gels to from a gasket.
> > Otherwise you re-tighten and just squeeze out the sealant.   This way you
> > do
> > not do a finally tightening until the sealant has set to form a gasket.
> > Keep us posted.
>
>
>
> Baywind wrote:
> >
> > Great article by Don Casey:
> >  http://www.boatus.com/boattech/casey/35.htm Link
> >
> >
>
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