profurl setscrews!

[dougs]

Good morning,

Yesterday was a nice quiet day so I thought i would take my Genoa off the furler for the season. I got it about 8 feet down and it sharply stopped descending... I have read of the setscrews backing out of the extrusions on profurl furlers (LCI-42 i think).

So next quiet day i will un-roll and go up to fix.

I have a few questions:

1.) Should i use locktite (blue or red)?

2.) I plan on re-locktiteing all of the setscrews, any thoughts on dropping a minimum? know offhand what size/material these screws are so i can have some spares?

3.) Up top I guess I could run a lanyard around the sail and stay to get over to the headstay but as i come down i might have a mess in front of me as the sail grows. Perhaps if I make up the spin halyard tightly and use a lanyard around that?

This is a 55' isomat mast and i climb using a harness and ascenders. Probably will go up on the spare jib halyard.

Any thoughts would be nice.

Thanks
Doug