Karen H. wrote: > it together (this is when I go screaming for a man to help), I struggled > FOREVER with sliding the two end frame sections out of the skin on > disassembly, even longer than I struggled with getting those two struts > OUT of place! It seems that you left your K-light assembled for quite awhile before knocking it down. If any folding kayak is left assembled for a long time, the skin really hugs the frame and it can be difficult to pull the halves out. With the K-Light, it would help if you wet the deck. The cordura gets stretchy and things will loosen up. Two of the principles of the 6 I have outlined in various places apply: The Remote Solution Principle. While you have to pull the frame half out the cockpit and are finding it stuck, the solution may be at a place remote from where you are doing the work, namely the very ends of the boat. Try grabbing the bow or stern end and give it a good shaking up and down and pull. That helps break the adhesion of skin to frame at the ends of the boat. The Umbrella Principle. The long pieces of the frame are pushing out against the skin, which is what they are supposed to do like an umbrella's frame. If you cradle the ends of the gunwale and chine bars in your arms and squeeze them in toward each other, you relieve the outward push of these long pieces against the skin. While pressing them inward with the inside of your arms, pull toward the cockpit and the frame halves will come out. None of this takes strength just some savvy. ralph -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Diaz . . . Folding Kayaker newsletter PO Box 0754, New York, NY 10024 Tel: 212-724-5069; E-mail: rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com "Where's your sea kayak?"----"It's in the bag." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Mar 16 1999 - 20:32:30 PST
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