Centreboard | Removal & Stripping Paint (Again...)

It was time to remove the centreboard for the second time in order to repaint it.

Here it is held up out of the case to allow easy handling while the pin is removed. I have removed the pendant at this stage.

I drilled out the resin filler and knocked the pivot pin out with a piece of rod, like this.

As before I had to heat the pin with the hot air gun to free it sufficiently to move.

I found that the pivot hole had closed up very slightly so that the pin was no longer a sliding fit. I'm not sure why but a 10mm drill bit in my old brace was used to carefully ream it out to size.

Here is the brace and bit.

This is the board being stripped.

The paint of course is gloss rather than the primer on the hull, but three applications of stripper still removed it all.

And finally here is the fully stripped board.

I hope I never have to do this again!