[Douglas]

Hi Mike, I really like that we have such great sources of info available to us, on this forum, and I thank Brion Toss, for that,,,,, and on this occasion, Brian Duff too !

I discovered that there are heat-shrinkage and internal stress-tension problems associated with linear welding the sleeves in anticipation that the re-joined sleeve parts will fit "nicely" into the mast section.

Maybe that is why Brian Duff shys away from doing that, or maybe even for other reasons.

Since we don't have any riggers or rigging shops for sailing yachts, here in Singapore, I had to forage ahead with what knowledge I could find locally,,,, which wasn't much, drats !

I will try to contact JSI , or any other reccomendations from the forum, for the replacement spreaders, that I need , T Y .

Douglas