dyform

[mld]

Thank you Brion for your help,
Our rigging is Ageca and yes, it is discountiuous. We have been told that they can not use the spreader tips with the new rigging. As for my meaning of "frozen on", we have gotten a few of the turnbuckles off with much work and it seems to be a lot of gunk such as salt, Afican dust etc. that cleans out once you get the turnbuckles off but many of them will not come off and we do not want to gaul them. Some rigging information from Beneteau indicates that the upper terminals may have been put together with Locktite. We do not want to hurt the metal with too much heat so maybe we are not heating them enough. We have used WD-40 to soak the ternminals with little result and are considering other solvents eg. acetone. Do you think that might work?
Is there one type of end fitting better than another for use with dyform?
Not a worry about the back stay - it is already wire and it is just for tuning since it is a fractional rig with swept back spreaders and mechanical adjustment.
MLD