> Iain replied with all sorts of good stuff: >> IIRC, the vent has a bolt which passes through a thread on the > door and >> into the vent. It sounds as if the bolt is seized and the vent has > become >> unscrewed from the bolt. To get at the bolt head means, as you > have worked >> out, getting the internal casting off. This is secured by the top > glass >> retaining screws, which tend to get well stuck, and may need heat > and other >> means of persuasion to get them out. (Probably followed by > drilling and >> tapping to fit new ones :-( ) >> >> You might be able to get the vent to close by applying WD40 to > the >> bolt,with the vent off, and screwing the vent back on hard. With a > bit of >> leverage on the vent, this should shift the bolt in a bit. > However, the bolt >> will remain partially seized, and when the vent is unscrewed, it > will most >> probably come off the bolt, rather than the bolt moving in the > door as it's >> supposed to. For the complete cure, the inner casting has to come > off, the >> bolt freed off in the door and the vent replaced and tightened > with a >> spanner or socket on the bolt head and the vent held with a lever > of some >> sort beween the operating lugs.
From: "Roger Millin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > A better solution, once you have gone through the agony of the > removal of seized (oops, I mean drilling and re-tapping) screws > securing the air curtain deflector bit is to replace the mild steel > vent screw with a stainless one. I've done this on both top and > bottom vents on my Morso, many years ago and the problem has never > returned. Good fun this boating stuff, isn't it? ;-) Whato Mr Millin and All, Thanks for that. How nice to have you back in Blighty. Do we get a trip report from your overseas adventure? Regards, Andrew Web Site www.andrewdyke.co.uk Web Site www.mayorofevesham.co.uk
