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Topic: mast step repair |
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murphcbr6 |
Posted: 03-Jul-06 14:03 |
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Hi, I noticed yesterday on my boat that the plate the mast slots into has a couple of millimetres movement in it - from a very cursory initial inspection it looks like the forward screw is loose.
It also looks like it might have cracked the gelcoat at the sides of the plate too (probably caused by it moving about).
has anyone else come across this? and what did you do to put it right?
At the moment my plan is to take the plate off - remove any loose gelcoat, inject epoxy resin wherever I can, including into the existing screw holes and then gelcoat over the top - replacing the existing plate over the top of the repair with a layer of sikaflex between the plate and the gelcoat. Does this sound reasonable? |
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murphcbr6 |
Posted: 02-Aug-06 21:19 |
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I did the repair last weekend - once I'd got the plate off and cleaned it up, it wasn't half as bad as I'd feared - just a slight crack in the gelcoat where one of the screws had worked loose. I epoxied all the holes up and re-drilled them, repaired the gelcoat and its as good as new now. In fact its probably stronger - thank God for all the hot weather that everything was bone dry and things cured in a matter of hours rather than days.
I love West Systems Epoxy - I may name my first child after them.
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Pete Lindley |
Posted: 02-Aug-06 21:47 |
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Not sure on the middle name though - Systems?
[Edited by Pete Lindley on 02-Aug-06 21:48] |
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