Fairline Targa 40 companionway steps removal?

[jimmy_the_builder]

Anyone know how the steps in the T40 come out? I can see that the top two are hinged at the top and it should be as simple as unscrew the hinges ... but it's not clear to me how the bottom two are fastened in, or where to start to remove them. Anyone done this? (Roger - you must surely have taken these out to install some bloo leds in there somewhere...)

Cheers
Jimmy

 

[Pinnacle]

Are you putting a third engine in there then???


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[gjgm]

I ve heard criticism of the steepness of the steps on the T40. Are you fitting one of these ?

http://www2.acornstairlifts.co.uk/?source=google&adg=ukwh&gclid=CLr0ua-N-poCFVOK3godplaMdg

 

[RogerRat]

Nope, my bloo lights are outside only and 'subtle'! /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[jfm]

Erk, don't expect it to be easy. I've done much disassembly/reassembly of Fairline joinery (took the galley apart this weekend to install bigger oven) but not your actual job. Expect things like screws hidden by wallcoverings in the aft cabin, and possibly stuff glued with sikaflex as well as screwed, etc They could even be a GRP moulding with the wood stuck on top. Good luck...!

 

[jimmy_the_builder]

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Erk, don't expect it to be easy

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No, I didn't think it would be. There are four steps in the T40, the top two are easy, but the bottom two are the problem. However, they are definitely not part of the main moulding - each step is a separate moulding - but in some hard-to-explain way they seem to be internally fixed somehow. I'd rather not cut them out, but if it comes to it... (Slightly less drastically, I have also sent a note to Fairline to ask the same question).

Cheers
Jimmy

 

[jfm]

Fairline are a PITA on direct questions, they say "ask your dealer". That said, an email to Alice at EBY will prob answer the question anyway.

As you'll have figured out, with Fairline (and lots of other boats) you don't get assembly drawings or anything. You have to disassemble bit by bit and figure it out as you go. You have to cut/destroy some fasteners and refix things differently from how Fairline did it, sometimes.

Here's my galley, yesterday. The space in front of the silver airco duct had a combi microwave above a pan drawer, and I'm replacing with a full-on Miele or Siemens (whichever the dealer can get in stock by Friday, cos I have a big lunch on Saturday) all singing/dancing oven. The new oven is taller, so I am making the pan drawer under it shallower, which means the little step halfway up the RHS has to be lowered too. Anyway, point is, there are no instructions for this and unless the chief boat fixer at your dealer has done it before he can't even talk you through it. You just have to figure it out as you go, and remeber there are lots of cleverly concealed screws, plus things glued together with Sika or silicone...

 

[Hurricane]

I had to change our microwave,/oven the other day but I got an expert to help - Jez!!
Doddle really (for me anyway) cos I just left him to it.
A man of many tallents.
All done whilst RogerRat and djefabs were resetting the limit switches on the passerelle.
I was doing the skipper bit by running round like a headless chicken.