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Keith D.
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Initially Posted - 04/30/2005 :  13:13:51  Show Profile
I finally attacked the frozen brass turning block ball for the centerboard. Per an earlier post http://www.catalina25-250.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=8756 I tried to grab it with a long nose pliers but could not get it to move. I also tried a duckbill and several other kinds of pliers but could not find anything, which would grip the ball enough to move it even a fraction of an inch. It is just too far up in the tube. After an hour I decided to drill a small 3/32-hole ΒΌ inch deep in the ball just off to one side of the groove. After drilling the hole I took the drill bit and turned it around and stuck it into the hole and with that I was finally able to slowly free the ball. With a long 30-inch straw on the WD 40 can it finally came free but only for the 180 degrees, which I could turn it with that hole. I was then able to use a long needle nose and get to the around other side and drilled a second hole to work it back and forth until it would spin free. I do not know how long the ball was frozen, probably for years. The P.O. had kept the boat in a slip and never raised the centerboard. I hope I never need to replace this ball because the only way I can see to get it out is to take the tube out of the boat.
Keith
Southern California
250wb Hull #8
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