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Post by abouttime2fish on Sept 16, 2020 18:23:53 GMT -5
I think this will be the third one I’ve put in during the 10 years I’ve had the boat. This time I’m keeping the old one, because I know one of you has come up with a solution!! As is the norm, water got to the magnets and they all swelled up.
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Post by outtadblue on Sept 17, 2020 15:07:35 GMT -5
I know someone replaced the magnet with plastic or starboard. I’m going this next time.
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Post by Maysport on Sept 17, 2020 19:37:22 GMT -5
I had the previous owner replace the latch when I took delivery. The magnet fell off after about 3-4 years. I was lucky enough to find and fish it out of the bilge and epoxy it back on.
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Post by abouttime2fish on Sept 18, 2020 6:39:24 GMT -5
I’ve got spare door jam side, it’s the sliding magnet in the door side that keeps failing for me.
I like the starboard idea. I’ll let the old one sit on my bench a while thinking about it.
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Post by gs535 on Sept 21, 2020 13:45:27 GMT -5
As stated above I took my old bolt out and cut an exact copy at out of an old cutting board. Used a grinder and drimmel to shape. Cut in the channel for the spring. The spring does the job with no magnet. No magnet no rust.
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Post by solomon320 on Oct 16, 2020 7:42:54 GMT -5
As stated above I took my old bolt out and cut an exact copy at out of an old cutting board. Used a grinder and drimmel to shape. Cut in the channel for the spring. The spring does the job with no magnet. No magnet no rust. ^^^^^^this^^^^^ I used starboard and found the correct size spring and its been a done deal. The one other thing I did was hose the spring and slide down with fluid film, whether that helped I don't know but it seems to be doing the job.
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