Fixing things in small places

[Wansworth]

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That's an appalling story, though you have my sympathy, of course.

Can we get back to the quite separate keel-fastening access question which I thought we were discussing?

itially it was a reference to getting older and finding it difficult to reach places which was my observation in trying to stop mice getting in to the kitchen cupboard how it got to ticks god only knows

 

[Daydream believer]

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itially it was a reference to getting older and finding it difficult to reach places which was my observation in trying to stop mice getting in to the kitchen cupboard how it got to ticks god only knows

I think that we were ticking off all the options

 

[mjcoon]

I think that we were ticking off all the options

Not to mention calling in the experts at tricky access to infestations...

 

[Daydream believer]

Not to mention calling in the experts at tricky access to infestations...

Very useful if, like Wansy, one has a hole that needs plugging.
Personally I would just give it a burst of Feb foam & fill his cavity with expanding foam

 

[zoidberg]

I heard that you had to buy a mirror on a stick so you could see your nuts

In one sense I chuckled at the feeble D-Entendres..... However, truly a fearful labour I had to tackle several times this past summer. 'Twas not nearly as much fun as I'd expected.

I had to secure one of these on deck as far forward as possible, using 3 bolts, then provide the best under-deck reinforcement I could manage:

The gap forward was too small to allow me to touch the bolts-plus-nuts, needing a smartphone on a long selfie-stick and multiple 'delayed shutter' shots, with multiple shaped templates for the G10 plus stainless plus Fast Grab and Bond reinforcement lashup.....

The crucial bit, not quite visible but where the two 'bare' bolts project down ( one with white rings to indicate length available for layers of G10, stainless plate and thickened epoxy. Plus locknut.... )

A pair of shaped templates, to be pulled up flush ( while avoiding nuts/bolts holding pulpit 'feet' ) using 3 lengths of red 'lecky cable, a pair of s/s ferrules, to position the G10/stainless plate sections exactly.... and cords to pull the 3 red cables back sequentially to admit the 3 through-bolts.....

The 3mm stainless plate ( represented by the beige plastic template ) had 3 locknuts welded on using JB Weld epoxy so that the through-bolts could be passed through the fitting, the deck, the G10, the stainless plate - and 'started' from above. Once all 3 were secured in place, they each could be wound up tight sequentially and the epoxy left to set.


If you think that was a LOT of faff... you're right. I wouldn't want to tackle that twice. 'There must be a better way'.....

 

[LittleSister]