Hi everyone, after quite a bit of reading I have come to the conclusion that rebedding your chainplates whilst leaving the mast in position can be ok, providing you do one side at a time and use halyards to secure the mast. Question is.... Has anyone any experience with this and if yes was it easily achievable with good results? Also the big question... Butyl tape or 3M 4200 sealant or similar? Everyone has their opinions 
thanks!
This guy has it down pat.
www.pbase.com:443/mainecruising/rebedding_hardware&page=1
And you can get the tape here.
www.pbase.com:443/mainecruising/rebedding_hardware&page=1
I did my 9.5m mast u-bolts to chain plates with the mast up, Was very easy actually.
Butyl vs polyurethanes etc. I prefer fix tech.
Thanks everyone, much appreciated. Left my run a bit late this week to order from tapes online. Shout out to anyone in perth who may have some leftover butyl tape I could purchase? Long shot but worth a try.
An alternative is to try ordering it from (this would take a while though):
www.pbase.com:443/mainecruising/butyl_tape
Select to expand quoteYara said..
Note the word staging. before the tapesonline. You may have been hacked. Try typing the correct address into your browser.
I get this error when I click on the url, or copy paste the url into Chromium Version 53.0.2785.89 (64-bit). Thanks for the help, I guess it is possible that I could have been hacked, but I am running Gentoo hardened linux, Chromium and everything on the machine is compiled from the GPG signed source code using a hardened toolchain.
Select to expand quotesomeday said..Yara said..
Note the word staging. before the tapesonline. You may have been hacked. Try typing the correct address into your browser.
I get this error when I click on the url, or copy paste the url into Chromium Version 53.0.2785.89 (64-bit). Thanks for the help, I guess it is possible that I could have been hacked, but I am running Gentoo hardened linux, Chromium and everything on the machine is compiled from the GPG signed source code using a hardened toolchain.
I get the error gut decided to take a risk - got my tape quick time without any problems.
Select to expand quotejgb1787 said..
Thanks everyone, much appreciated. Left my run a bit late this week to order from tapes online. Shout out to anyone in perth who may have some leftover butyl tape I could purchase? Long shot but worth a try.
Hi jgb1787,
have a look for my post 'Butyl Tape - Australian Source' 27/06/16 for butyl tape available in Australia.
I use it extensively with excellent results
regards,
allan
