[Rhodes22-list] IMF anchor light installation

[Cary Tolbert]

Thanks Jeff, for sharing your experiences. It seems reasonable and straight
forward. So here goes nothing
and I am sure the worst thing will be some scraped knuckles.
Cary
S/V Whisper '86

On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 6:42 PM JeffSmith <jeffsmithphoto at gmail.com> wrote:

> To remove the pop rivets you can drill them out with the appropriate size
> drill and replace them with the same size. There is no load, so aluminum
> rivets should work fine.
> I pulled the 2 machine screws from the top cover of my mast today to load a
> 1/4" hardware store line with 8" cable ties every foot or so in the wire
> channel to quiet the wire slap. I expect it to work, but don't know yet. I
> didn't want to remove and re-pull the masthead wire and risk messing it
> up.
> First I tape-ed the 1/4" line to a 25' electricians snake, but that got
> hung
> up, so I used the snake to run an 1/8" dacron line from the top of the
> lowered mast to the base which worked. Then rolling hitched & taped the
> 1/8"
> to the 1/4"and pulled. "In like Flynn" (that expression is even before my
> time).
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