Sean- I'e gotten them loose by taking a prybar or large screwdriver from below and prying it fro9m the trailing edge. Use the bacl member of the trunk as the fulcrum. Thanks for the Gift certificate; it wasn't expected but it'll come in handy some day! Jerry jerrymontgomery.org ----- Original Message ----- From: <Nebwest2@aol.com> To: <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 4:11 PM Subject: M_Boats: Stuck Keel Tricks???
Hey everyone. Anybody got any surefire ways of getting a very stuck rusted keel out of a keel trunk, other than bashing it out (delicately of course :-)) from above. Seems as how over the last 45 days our keel which worked fine when we picked up the boat in Fla. has fused to the keel trunk. I have been able to get it maybe 1/3 of the way down but that has involved a lot of force from above and it doesn't seem to be getting any easier! For today its Sean O, Keel 1. I feel kinda sheepish about saying that I put pics on my website, but the number of hits that thing is getting boggles my mind. Almost 800 hits in 20 days, so someone is looking! So.....I put updated pics of the Bottom/Blister/and now Keel Removal saga on the website at www.havasumontgomerys.funtigo.com. Misery always loves company so come check it out!!! I really just want to sail the dang thing. Maybe I can talk Bones into bringing his down here for a winter sail and taking me for a ride!
Happy new year
Sean _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats