[Rhodes22-list] Gasket For Opening Port Screen

[Chris Geankoplis]

Lloyd ,you asked if you can soak the screen in something to "convince it is
young again"  I'd use beer or rum.  Every time I soak myself it it not  only
do I feel young but witty to boot.  Also I get pretty tight too.

Chris G
-----Original Message-----
From: Lloyd Crowther <lcrowther at cox.net>
To: List, New Rhodes22 <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Date: Saturday, September 04, 2004 9:33 PM
Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Gasket For Opening Port Screen


Today I discovered the corner of the screen on one of the forward opening
ports on Uhuru II had somehow popped out of the front of the port.  I took
the gasket the holds the screen off and removed the screen itself from the
port hole.  The screen and gasket remove from inside the boat after the port
glass itself is opened , i.e., the screen is outside the glass but inside
the port frame as you all know.  The screen and the material that forms the
screen's shape look to be in good condition, not bent in any way.  My
problem, if you care to address it, is that the screen has been in place for
twenty years ('84 Rhodes22) and the retaining gasket is not as limber as it
was when originally installed.  It has some flexibility, but not enough to
stretch over the curved corners of the molded lip on the port's frame which
holds the screen in place when the port is open.  As a matter of fact, it is
like trying to stretch a piece of wood although it is flexible enough to
flop around when I tried to put it back.  Does anybody know of anything I
can paint or spray on the gasket material or soak the gasket in that will
convince it that it is again young without destroying the gasket material,
the material that forms the screen's shape, the screen mesh, or the port
frame?

Lloyd Crowther
s/v Uhuru II
__________________________________________________
Use Rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org, Help? www.rhodes22.org/list