[Rhodes22-list] Sacrificial Toothpicks

[Hank]

That's easy enough.  There is way too much leverage coming from the
mast for the through bolts to hold.  Once the mast starts to go, it is
gone and the through bolts will not help, they'll only rip up the top
of your cabin at the same time.  So instead of a easy quick repair,
you are done for the season.

There is a reason why no manufacturer of boats with deck stepped masts
uses through bolts.

Hank

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 11:36 PM, Michael Hellyar
<michaelhellyar at icloud.com> wrote:
> I appreciate all the feedback and we will consider all the comments. I explained our logic for through bolting and I hope someone will explain why we are wrong.
>
> Mike Hellyar
> sent from my iPad
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> On Jun 20, 2013, at 11:44 AM, R22RumRunner at aol.com wrote:
>
>> Mike,
>> Please follow the advice of the list (and Stan's) and DO NOT through bolt
>> the mast step.
>>
>> Rummy
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 6/20/2013 9:06:16 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>> mdh007 at wowway.com writes:
>>
>> We are  re-attaching the mast step fitting. The holes were left uncovered
>> for years.  We are going to through bolt. Yes, we know Stan's theory. We used
>> a simple  process described in West System Boat Maintenance. Cured epoxy
>> can be hard on  drill bits so Steve came up with the idea to slobber match
>> sticks with some  paste wax use clear tape over the filled holed and stick the
>> match sticks into  the epoxy to create a pilot small starter pilot. Tape
>> hold the matchsticks  vertical. And it worked like a charm. And the epoxy
>> wicked quite a bit to  repair any core damage in the area. By taping the hole
>> opening in the cabin we  prevented in leakage. Given the strength of epoxy we
>> could just as well have  re-drilled and screwed into the epoxy.
>>
>> Mike Hellyar
>> Steve Congdon,  Rhodesmaster I
>> sent from my iPad
>>
>> Begin forwarded  message:
>>
>>> From: sjcclu <sjcclu at msn.com>
>>> Date: June  19, 2013, 7:49:17 AM EDT
>>> To: Mike Hellyar <mdh007 at wowway.com>,  Mike Hellyar <mhellyar22 at yahoo.com>
>>> Subject: <No  Subject>
>>> Reply-To: sjcclu <sjcclu at msn.com>
>>>
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