On May 28, 5:43 pm, Lew Hodgett wrote:
lwhaley wrote:
They have rabbets which covers the
fabric, a suprise. They are assembled with 66 brass screws. I was
able to buy a box of 100 exact replacments, $20.

Brass and marine is a BAD combination, even in fresh water, IMHO.

The zinc leaches out, then the copper crushes.

I'd use silicon bronze, available at any good chandlery or even a
hardware store, if in a coastal area.

Lew

Hmm, I will look into that. I can an still get my money back on the
brass if needed since I bought a box of 100. The brass screws that I
removed have been there for 10 years. They are still in good shape
except for some heads that were damaged by whoever put it together. I
had to cut a slot in one to get it out, dremel tool. The screws are
countersunk so I also made a bit of a slot in the wood, no big deal.

The boating season is not so long in Minnesota. Most of the year we
are frozen solid. The canoe is in storage 99% of the time, to be
honest. We don't have anything but fresh water in Minnesota but we
have a fantastic resource here.

You woudln't call anyplace in MN a coastal area but they say say we
have more coastline than California and Alaska combined. I guess they
say that for the tourists and must be adding up every lake,
impoundment, river, stream, creek, and ditch to come up with that
figure.

Anyhow, it's a large state and it is littered with lakes and
crisscrossed with waterways. We even have a river that flows north!
The Minnesota River flows to Hudson Bay. Minnesota is sort of the
world capital of canoeing since you don't ever have to go far to
enjoy. Now to put that canoe back together.....