Good news!
The extra long 5/16-18 oval head Phillips machine screws that I need for the cabintop safety rails arrived!
Bad news!
There were only two in the package! The rest are back-ordered!
I kept thinking the company would strike-out on the back-order and cancel the rest. But just today I got two emails in a row, one saying the parts had arrived and the other saying they’d all shipped!
Booya.
So, to get the salon headliner installed, I need to wrap up just a couple of things: refurb the screens for the salon opening, install the mahogany panels in the same place, and then put in the screen slider tracks. Then the Whisper Wall installer can attach the tracks and start putting in panels.
These things are ugly
Fuzzy seal glue got left behind
Chris Craft put fuzzy screen seals on the frames to help keep bugs out. Whatever the glue was, it stuck to the aluminum a lot better than it did to the fuzzy strip.
Mechanical removal is the only thing that worked
Next, clean, polish and wax
Big difference between polished and not.
The focus was off in the above picture, but these frames clean up really nicely with some metal polish and wax.
The one on the left is don
Sloppy varnish job
Somebody really went nuts with the varnish on this boat. I have no idea how they’d end up with brush marks on this screen frame, but they did. Fortunately, it cleaned up well. Unfortunately, all of the other pictures of the screens are so badly out of focus they’re not worth posting. They sure did turn out nicely, though.
Next up in our 1969 Chris Craft Roamer 46 Refit: Installing Salon Entryway Panels and Screens
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