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Haven't done much over christmas, other than getting VE resin, and cloth ready, managed to put down 200 litres of house roof paint, so another job out of the way
spent the other day grinding down to some good fibreglass on floor inside stringers, then turned my attention to stringers and gave them the hammer test
found some rot on right hand stringer (looking from back of transom, and kept going until I found solid wood, which was around 30" forward of transom, started to look at left hand stringer and found there was less rot, and started to dig this out.
the rest of the stringers left and right sounds solid with no visual laminations
so the question is now how do partially do a stringer rebuild?
1. I'm assuming that I clean up existing stringer
2. make a stepped joint between existing and new stringer
3. stinger will be 12x2" x30" long
4. Use peanut butter for glue joint between stringers, and floor, add weight to hold down
5. then lay cloth up, was going to use axial woven 17oz, and 35oz cloth (managed to pick this up reasonable cheap) to lay up
Questions:
- I'm not sure what timber was used in stringers, assuming I'm looking for something like hoop pine (Douglas Fir/Oregon), and not a heavier hardwood?
- does anyone see any issues with the stringer joint with overlap of 6", I'm assuming once all cloth is down its all one piece sealed in the heavy cloth and fibreglass
and of course some pictures
cheers
Brett