[Rhodes22-list] Void under mast foot planned or developed

[Caesar Paul]

Yes Joe,
 
That's the reason those screws are used to secure the Mast Tabernacle to the Deck.  Stuff happens, mast falls, and when it does, rather than break deck or bend mast, screws pops out and reduces or prevents costly damage.
 
Much cheaper to reset three wood screws.  Truth be told, I am talking from experience.
 
Caesar

--- On Tue, 3/3/09, Mary Lou Troy <mtroy at atlanticbb.net> wrote:

From: Mary Lou Troy <mtroy at atlanticbb.net>
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Void under mast foot planned or developed
To: "The Rhodes 22 Email List" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2009, 2:17 PM

Hi Joe,
You don't want to replace the screws with bolts. The idea is that if 
for some reason you drop the mast or forget to move the pop-top 
slider out of the way when lowering the mast, the screws will pull 
out and not damage your cabin top. If you had the tabernacle bolted 
and the mast came down, you could do some serious damage.

Mary Lou
1991 R22 Fretless
Rock Hall, MD

At 12:40 PM 3/3/2009, you wrote:

>I just cut into the mast foot over the cabin.  Appears two sheets of
3/4" ply
>were partially rotted.
>
>Beneath the ply was about 1/4 " void, some hard stuff of undetermined
origin
>was broken and chipped in art of the void.
>
>I'm guessing that was old epoxy perhaps.
>
>The void beneath the plywood should be filled, correct?
>
>Water had worked it's way into the three screw holes.
>
>Does anyone replace the screws with bolts?
>
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