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Cobra maintenance #276447
11/30/14 04:46 AM
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Hi All

I know it's not a mozzy ... but I thought I would share my Cobra maintenance journey with you. Your feedback and advice would be appreciated.

First item - centreboards.

They are really nice timber and glass boards but need some repair. As you can see in the photo, I have sanded it back a fair bit to take off all the delaminated glass. I would like to simply seal them now - I don't really want to re-glass them. Is that possible?

I have everdure, epoxy resin and varnish on hand. What should I use?

Matthew

PS: yes I know I am a bit late ... aiming to be on the water for the nats at Christmas!


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Re: Cobra maintenance [Re: Matthew Dawson] #276448
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It is a plywood Cobra. Built in 1983.


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Re: Cobra maintenance [Re: Matthew Dawson] #276449
11/30/14 03:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Matthew Dawson
.....I know it's not a mozzy .....


we'll forgive you...... this time wink


being such a short board the glass that's delaminated wont be a huge issue strength wise

so really they probably just need sealing up

Don't use varnish, sure its easy and quick and looks good but you'll pay for it the next time the maintance schedule comes around... check TwiceShy's thread and the varnish on the rudder blades and centreboards..... took a full day to remove the varnish and polish up the glass to a usable finish for each piece.... 4 wasted days because of the varnish
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the other negative for varnish is future repairs, if at some stage you need to fix an issue you'll find that varnish and resin don't play well together.

So the answer your chasing in my opinion would be the epiglass-everdure treatment..... little bit more effort now but you'll appreciate it further down the track

download this and print it out..... & store with the tin wink
http://www.paintncolour.com.au/uploads/media/Everdure.pdf
(its the maximum overcoating times & drying times you'll want.... follow that and you cant go wrong)



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Re: Cobra maintenance [Re: Matthew Dawson] #276454
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I love everdure, and did both my Mozzys with it when you do the treatment water it down with the special thinners and just keep doing coats until it won't absorb anymore, if you want to varnish over it you can but use the interluct varnish that's compatible. When using Everdure you apply each coat before the last coat sets so you have a chemical bonding reaction between layers. With varnished wood the trick is to sand and revarnish before the varnish gets old and breaks down so it always looks good so a quick light sand and thin coat every couple of years


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Re: Cobra maintenance [Re: Matthew Dawson] #276588
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Thanks Kingy and Jeff. I will give the everdure a go.


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Re: Cobra maintenance [Re: Matthew Dawson] #276593
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I got a lot of stainless fittings and fasteners off the two old boats I bought this year. What is the best way to clean them up?

It's mainly the screws, bolts and nuts - the threads are full of 'gunk'.

There is a fair bit of paint on screw heads and stainless saddles too.


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Re: Cobra maintenance [Re: Matthew Dawson] #276596
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start in a container of petrol then slowly go with more caustic products.

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The best way to clean the threads is with the appropriate taps and dies.


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all good, but easiest way is a wire bush on a bench grinder,.... some grease don't dissolve in some cleaners, taps and dies are good but need to work out what type of thread it is... metric, with worth, BSP, imperial, ect. wire wheel is the way to go

Matt

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Wire wheel; PLEASE wear safety glasses/goggles. A full face shield is even better. Any loose wires launching from the wheel always seem to find soft tissue!
Hold bolt with vice grips as fingers/pliers are not sufficient holding power when those nasty little wires wrap into the threads. If you have the nut to match the thread, they are usually sufficient to clean out the remaining paint. Take care!!


Tortured ply is clearly beautiful.
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A few tips.....

there's plenty of paint stripper style products and caustic sodas to choose from, these work well to soften paint and make removal very easy.... but stainless usually has a well polished finish and paint doesn't stick that well anyway, so it will "chip" off without major effort, the strippers and caustic just speed up the operation.

wire brushes are the go for the removal of silastics/duralac etc sealers and are easily the best for removing corroded alloy that's lodged on the shanks/threads of the bolts or screws, as already stated its more a question of "holing onto" the bolt/screw as its being 'brushed'...

to make life far easier and A LOT SAFER use a wire wheel brush that you can fit to a variable speed drill and secure the drill in a vice or similar..... lower RPM wont be such a safety issue with fraying wires flying off and the chance of the bolt/screw being caught by the brush and flung into the never-to-be-seen-again region of the shed is greatly reduced...

This also has another positive with a lower spinning speed and that's one not many are familiar with....
99.9% of wire wheels are made of HIGH TENSILE MILD STEEL wires... mild steel and stainless DONT play well together and if you use a high-speed bench grinder and push a bit hard the mild steel 'can' impart some of its atoms onto the stainless and once its refitted to a boat and you get it wet it WILL rust slightly.
High grade stainless is less likely to be effected like this but can still have that mild steel transfer, lower grade stainless (316 for example) will rust stain very easily once the wire wheel imparts some of its metal onto the stainless.

If your going to wire wheel the parts then get a brush specifically to suit stainless steel smile

Also.....
its called a bench grinder..... it WILL even with a wire wheel "grind" to a certain extent, so caution is needed as to the pressure you apply with the part on the wheel, push a bit hard or for a few seconds too long and the wheel WILL remove material for the part, and it WILL impart some of its wire onto the part...


above all

its better to loose a $2.00 5/16th bolt to the never-to-be-seen-again region of the shed than it is to have a single wire removed from your now blind eye or suffer the septic healing from that wire imbedded in a soft tissue area of your body, the question then becomes, is any of it worth the effort for a handful of 2nd hand bolts/screws
Don't get me wrong, you just have to balance the risk/reward of the parts value over personal safety and well-being, in my game its always a shock as to how many people will risk injury for something that's worth less than they will make in an hour....
wink


cheers


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Re: Cobra maintenance [Re: Matthew Dawson] #276621
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Thanks for the tips everyone. I'll try sloshing the about in some petrol first to see how I go.

I have a little dremel tool with the workstation that can mount the tool on its side. I can use that with the wire brush attachment on slow speed for the persistent bits.


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Anyone have any suggestions for a new mast hook?

I currently have the one in the photo below but I want to change it to a hook separate from the pulley. I want the hook a few inches below the top of the mast so I can pull up past the hook when unhooking.

Suggestions?


http://www.dawson.id.au/Cobra/masthook.JPG


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I made mine out of 3mm stainless. It's not hard to make a hook providing that you are capable of cutting, bending and drilling 3mm stainless.

The tricky bit is to get the hook dimensions and positioning on the mast just right so that the sail hooks on first go, and then also unhooks easily. I spent a lot of time considering all of that, then ended up fluking a perfect hook for 1434's mast (our other two masts already had hooks).

In designing my hook I took measurements from the other two hooks but the end result was more good fortune than good management. You've gotta be to be lucky sometimes...

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I'll send you a pic shortly

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Originally Posted by Greg/Debra
I made mine out of 3mm stainless. It's not hard to make a hook providing that you are capable of cutting, bending and drilling 3mm stainless.


Errr ... That's beyond me I'm afraid ... smile

Hoping to buy something?

Goodall has them ... I might have to get a quote from them. Will be pricey ...


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I would like to get some of my new parts anodised. Anyone know where I can get this done in Geelong or the west of Melbourne?


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Re: Cobra maintenance [Re: Matthew Dawson] #276636
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The paper tiger system looks like a good one ... It might even work with my existing hook.

https://www.papertigercatamaran.org...;virtuemart_category_id=1&Itemid=101


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Re: Cobra maintenance [Re: Matthew Dawson] #276648
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If you have a halyard shackle with a ring or similar above it as in that picture your current hook should work fine as long as you tie the halyard to the shackle bit and not the top bit. as you normally only need about 10mm lift to disengage If your current hook is not quite disengaging then you can file a bit off your current hook. Some boats need to have the spanner pulled quite hard to engage or disengage the halyard can you post a photo of your current set up. Personally I think the link above shows an overly exact and complicated setup for a simple halyard lock


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Re: Cobra maintenance [Re: Matthew Dawson] #276649
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Some people call them a "parrot beak" and you can see the resemblance in that one (although it looks more like a duck to me). There is no need for a big beak like that... I agree with Jeff, you could file a bit off the beak.

Mast-top hooks are a notorious source of difficulty, but if you can get everything just right they work fine, and when that is the case you hardly need any beak at all.


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