Vince Dalrymple wrote: > > Now the request for advice. Though I love the water tight integrity of > my > Mountain Surf deck (I special ordered it extra tight), I've found out > the hard > way that it's a tad too tight around the coaming to put back on on-water > in > freezing weather. Does anyone have any tricks for relaxing the fit > progressively in small increments? Chuck Sutherland gave me advice for my wife's Mountainsurf which worked well in the warm weather and that was to attach it to the coaming for a few days. It worked well in that it remained tight but stretched it enough to be workable. Before trying the quite clever but involved process below, I would do the above and apply a blow dryer incrementally first. gabriel > I haven't contacted Mtn. Surf yet, and my best brainstorm so far is > bending some > copper tubing to the size and shape of the coaming - "L" both ends > downward at > the back, > fit the spraydeck over the coaming and hook up the plumbing to a hot > water > source, > then run progressively warmer water through while expanding the gap > between the > "L"s until progress is made. Thoughts ??? > -- Gabriel L Romeu http://studiofurniture.com İİİİİ furniture from the workshop http://studiofurniture.com/diary İİİİİ life as a tourist, daily journal http://studiofurniture.com/paint İİİİİ paintings, photographs, etchings, objects *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Jan 24 2001 - 15:35:02 PST
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