Tommy, There is a rubbery compound between the overlapping sheets of aluminum. I think the heat from a torch will do very bad things to it. One suggestion was get some spray-on truck bedliner from Walmart, and spray it on the inside after washing the inside with xylene. Another was 3M 5200. Jim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [email protected] 08/15/2007 04:00 PM Please respond to [email protected] To [email protected] cc Subject Re: catalina27-talk: Aluminum boat repair Someone makes a tube of silver "stuff" that you melt into the joints, and over the rivets with a propane torch. cannot remember the name of it, but it works GREAT (aluma seal comes to mind) Tommy, Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL.com.

