[quote=shortyfox]The cast aluminum back up bars in the cross tubes don't look too bad in the pic. Spray with WD-40 and remove the cross tubes and bed them with silicone including the back up bars and thru bolts. If the back up bars are cracked, you can make your own by taking several short pieces of 1/16 or 1/8 pieces of aluminum, tighten the bolt with one, take the bolt out, add another and so on. Finish with a flat washer. You'll wind up with several pieces that conform exactly to the shape of the beam. The plastic parts for the battens are inexpensive through Murrays and a lot of time they fail simply because the little bolts that hold them together have corroded away and you can find them at any hardware store. Not sure about your battens. With regular tapered Hobie battens it's common to have little splits on the luff end. If the spilt is only a couple of inches a quick fix is to dip them in West System epoxy. $30 for an aluminum tube? Metal supply store or hardware store. Is it possible that the original part was a slightly thicker fiberglass batten?[/quote]
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