Well, as you know from my priors, I successfully dropped the rudder. Today I
started in on removing all the prior epoxy from my interior attempts at
remediation of the many pits and fissures the rudder shaft.

Once that's all out, I'll aggressively hand wire-brush the pits with acetone
to clean it all for the next - and final, as the sleeves I wanted to use
won't work (for technical reasons) in this application - step, which is
Devcon's Plastic Steel epoxy.

Consultations with Devcon reveal that this is the best product for the
application, and it's very forgiving in time terms, allowing lots of work
time. I will stage the application such that I can sand it "green" so that
I don't have to exert so much force that I remove steel in the process.

Pix of this stage begin he

http://justpickone.org/skip/gallery/...+Old+Epoxy+Out

L8R, y'all

Skip, celebrating our 9th wedding anniversary alone tomorrow, working on the
boat, while Lydia plays nursemaid to her mother's house-host, who had
emergency gall bladder removal yesterday but is home, now, and her mother,
recovering from a compression fracture, but doing very nicely on Reumofan
Plus...

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