T&T: Backing material

[Faure, Marin]

<I am not sure I would 5200. Unless of course you don't want to ever
take this apart. The entire process of bedding components to the deck is
fraught with potential problems.

We didn't use the 5200 to bed the cleats to the deck.  We used 5200 to
bed and adhere the stainless steel backing plates to the underside of
the deck in the lazarette.  If the cleats need to be removed sometime in
the future it will be easy to do so--- it's just a matter of unscrewing
the nuts on the ends of the cleat bolts and pulling the bolts out.  The
cleats are bedded to the teak deck with black LifeCaulk.  I can't think
of any reason why the steel backing plates would ever have to be removed
from the underside of the deck.

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C. Marin Faure
GB36-403 "La Perouse"
Bellingham, Washington