any way to make the hatch slide better, like on something slippery, instead of fiberglass on fiberglass
I suppose you could put a strip of plastic for a sliding surface, but I think you would find that the hatch, which tends to slide a bit on its own in a seaway, would slide a lot in a seaway which could be a regular bother; you'd have to actively keep it from sliding around beating itself to death. Tod
I have this wonderful stuff called UHMW, or "poor man's Teflon" . . . It is actually slicker, in some properties, than Teflon . . . I mounted it to the inside of my kick-up rudder cheekplates with epoxy: I have an unusually-designed kick-up rudder in which the rudder body is fixed, and the cheekplates move (they're mounted to the blade) . . . The UHMW prevents scratches to the varnished body of the rudder, and also gives the kick-up blade a very smooth motion . . . You could epoxy strips of UHMW to the track slides of the hatch, so they would be hidden from view, and protected from UV . . . ----- Original Message ----- From: "MC Carpenter" <southisland2@earthlink.net> To: "For and about Montgomery Sailboats" <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 8:58 PM Subject: better hatch slide any way to make the hatch slide better, like on something slippery, instead of fiberglass on fiberglass
From a firm here in Michigan called Alro Plastics . . . Actually, I think Alro also markets a variety of metals and, perhaps, ceramics, too . . . They have a website . . . A Google search on Alro Pleastics should give you the web link . . .
----- Original Message ----- From: "MC Carpenter" <southisland2@earthlink.net> To: "For and about Montgomery Sailboats" <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 10:49 PM Subject: better hatch slide Where did you buy that UHMW?
Mike, Here is an outfit that specializes in selling "drops" of all sorts of materials... http://www.machinistmaterials.com/ Tod
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