Rick,
Hard to imagine exactly but your solution sounds better than new. As a
thought, I recently made a repair to an ABS fishing rod holder on a power boat
that was damaged badly. When I couldn't locate a replacement new I went to
plumbing supply house, not big box, and purchased a scrap if large diameter ABS
pipe to use as patch(cut pieces of course) and ABS glue. Once glued up this is
like being welded. Patch in my application on reverse and repair virtually
invisible.
Bill Walker
Evening Star
36
Pentwater, Mi
Bill Walker
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From: "Rick Brass" <rickbr...@earthlink.net>
To: <cnc-list@cnc-list.com>
Subject: Stus-List Advise on a dinghy repair
Date: Sat, Apr 6, 2013 12:36 am
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 BrassWashington, NC
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