SoCal Jet Boats
Tech Talk => Gelcoat / Paint / Fireberglass Repair => Topic started by: SLCKREG on November 21, 2007, 11:46:30 AM
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So I'm getting ready to put my motor in and I get lookin at my stringers . There full of holes(a dozen or so) I'm thinking I should drill them out a hair and soak some correct sized dowles in resin and plug em up .Then finish with a little glass and resin over that. Does that sound about right and also are pine dowles ok??? ???
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That sounds good to me. Pine should work just fine as a filler.
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I wonder how oil in the wood will effect the sticking of the resin?
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I'll prolly get reamed for this but I've drilled them out a little bit bigger so I get fresh clean wood and then did the resin soaked dowels routine followed by the necessary finish glassing.
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I don't know that I want to drill some of them THAT big. :D :D :D I may as well replace the stringers. I wonder if I sealed them with something and then glassed a dowel in place if that would work?
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I drilled my holes really big for fresh wood. I bought oak dowels from Lowes (cheap and strong) and I used epoxy instead of resin since epoxy was build for bonding wood to wood. Make sure that when you have to pound your dowels in so they are as tight as a......... for small holes I just drilled em out and countersunk to fresh wood and injected with resin. Also remember you want a slow cure with your resin and check the experation date on it.
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Blue what is this epoxy you speak of? My stringers are done but now I'm plugin a hole or to in my transom and I want the best. :o