Graham,

" Today if I were faced with this problem I would rely on Debond and then track down the person who used the 5200 and hold his head under water for awhile."

You are truly a gentleman. I can't begin to tell you what I would do to such a person.

Mike
s/v Windlass ('91)
Nissequogue River, NY

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From: Rhodes22-list <rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org> On Behalf Of Graham Stewart
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 10:33 PM
To: 'The Rhodes 22 Email List' <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] removing tabernacle - using heat to remove 5200

I had the situation Luis described when I had to remove the centerboard cap back in about 1996. I realize now that it had been installed with 5200 or equivalent but didn't know about that stuff back then. I managed to get it off by heating a large knife to red hot and inserting it into the sealant and slowly slicing along the length of the joint. It worked but took forever as I had to reheat the knife after about a minute and could make very little progress in that time. It was a huge effort. Even so I broke the cap in two in the process. 

I didn't try to heat the fiberglass directly and would be very reluctant to do that now as I think it unlikely that you could get sufficient heat into the join without destroying the fiberglass. It was a huge miserable job. Today if I were faced with this problem I would rely on Debond and then track down the person who used the 5200 and hold his head under water for awhile.

Graham Stewart
Agile, Rodes 22, 1976
Kingston Ontario


-----Original Message-----
From: Rhodes22-list [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Luis Guzman
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 1:42 PM
To: NewIn76; The Rhodes 22 mail list
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] removing tabernacle

When I was trying to remove a centerboard cap on my first Rhodes, I think it was a 72, I was told that heat works pretty good in softening 5200.  I believe it was an engineer from 3M who told me that. I have to look at he very old emails to see if I can find it. 

He told me to heat up the joint with a heat gun, careful not to set the fiberglass on fire, and work a knife in between to separate.

I did not try that as I was afraid I was going to st the boat on fire.


Luis A. Guzmán II

S/V Aquetxali

> On Oct 28, 2020, at 1:21 PM, NewIn76 via Rhodes22-list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org> wrote:
> 
> Sunset looks great and nice perspective.  Tabernacle is kind of out of 
> focus though, haha.
> 
> 
> 
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> Brian
> 1976 Rhodes 22
> Cleveland
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