3M 5200 Rich Knowles Indigo. LF38 Halifax
On 2013-04-06, at 1:36, "Rick Brass" <rickbr...@earthlink.net> wrote: I recently bought an 8 foot Sandpiper hard dinghy, thinking it might work better on the davits on Imzadi than the Zodiac inflatable I use now. I need some advice on how to make a reapir that is needed. The Sandpiper is a molded ABS dinghy like a Walker Bay, with foam filling between the inner and outer skins. The center thwart of the boat is wood, and it appears that it was originally fixed in place with 4 screws that went into plastic plugs pushed into a ledge in the inner skin of ABS. Apparently one or more of the plastic plugs got pulled out, and the PO secured the thwart with toggle bolts he bought at the Ace Hardware. With age, exposure, and use the toggle bolts have either corroded to extinction or pulled out of the ABS skin. I’m thinking that I might be able to use a 1” hole saw to open up a hole in the inner skin, remove some of the foam core with a bent nail (like removing the balsa core in a deck) and fill the void with thickened epoxy. Then I would drill and tap the epoxy plug for the screws, and use LifeSeal between the thwart and the ledge because LifeSeal is supposed to bond to ABS. My concern is that the epoxy will damage the foam core, and will not bond to the ABS skin. Has anyone had experience that can tell me whether this might or will not work? Or can anyone suggest an alternate way of attaching the thwart to the skin? Rick Brass Washington, NC _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com CnC-List@cnc-list.com
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