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Stan the Man
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 24 May 2012 : 22:45:50
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Hunky 'B' is fitted with the windows made from the aluminium section extruded to take a cover strip which hides the screwheads attaching the frames to the cabins sides (See Norman register 4).
Like myself, this cover strip is past the first flush of youth, and the boat came with a large coil of brand new strip which I'd like to fit. I just know that inserting this us going to be a real "Oh my word" (even if I warm it up first) and would like to learn of any other experiences in doing this.
I assume that it is possible to get hold of a tool to do this but what it is called and where to obtain one is a mystery as far as I am concerned.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Regards, Stan Owen |
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Sonny
United Kingdom
191 Posts |
Posted - 25 May 2012 : 13:20:26
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If you place the bottom edge in the slot and then run the top edge in using a small flat blade electrical screwdriver or thin piece of metal it should go in.
the only other observation I can make is that if the new strip you have has been left in the sun or is a year or two old it could be a lot more ridged than a brand new part, I have just taken the same cover strip out of our boat and it is like hard plastic but the part that was supplied by seals direct is very soft and pliable.
You are lucky in that you have screws, under the strip in question we have countersunk pop rivets and they need to be drilled out without going through the fiberglass behind to remove the windows. |
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Stan the Man
United Kingdom
134 Posts |
Posted - 25 May 2012 : 13:35:35
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Sonny
Sounds a great idea - I'm up at the boat tomorrow and I'll give it a whirl.
Regards, Stan |
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Sonny
United Kingdom
191 Posts |
Posted - 27 May 2012 : 18:34:15
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| Hi Stan come on tell us and put me out of my misery, how did it go? |
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Stan the Man
United Kingdom
134 Posts |
Posted - 28 May 2012 : 00:03:58
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Sonny
Car problems meant that I never got to the boat! I'm now planning to go on Thursday and will post progress
Regards, Stan |
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Stan the Man
United Kingdom
134 Posts |
Posted - 28 May 2012 : 19:54:02
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Sonny
On "Hunky 'B'", the screws attaching the Window do not "bite" into the GRP but screw into C-channel aluminum on the inside of the cabin which covers and protects the edge of the lining carpet. Unfortunately, it does making replacing the screws a two-person job |
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Sonny
United Kingdom
191 Posts |
Posted - 28 May 2012 : 22:12:49
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| Our boat is quite an old model and the inside of the roof is a fibreglass molding and it ends around the alloy window frame, there is no internal aluminum. |
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Stan the Man
United Kingdom
134 Posts |
Posted - 18 Jul 2012 : 11:37:12
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Sonny
It took me some time to get around to this job but yesterday I managed to return one of the front cabin windows.
I used a hot air gun (as a substitute for our non-existant summer) to soften the strip about two or three inches at a time. With the strip inserted into the bottom "groove", I was then able to use a small flat-bladed screwdriver to put the top edge of the strip down into the top "groove". It's not the fastest job around (another pair of hands would help as most of the time is taken up with picking up and putting down the gun) but I reckon that the front window took around 45 minutes. It turned out remarkably easy so now I can go around the other windows and I'm quite happy with the technique.
Later this year I'm intending to replace the internal lining carper in the front and rear cabins (it's pretty life-expired, much like me), and this involves removing all the screws from all the windows which screw through the window frame and fibre-glass into separate aluminium channel inside the boat. I was dreading this but now, armed with the Sonny Mk2 technique I can be sure that those pesky strips can be replaced!
Thanks for the advice.
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Plastic Cover Strip Insertion - windows
