etallen150
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Re: sea ray 160 motot mount repair
Here is what I have done. Sorry about being so vague but this started as a father son project that once the computer came out it became a son watch's the father project.
The original wood core only touched the hull on each side roughly1 3/4". The bottom was directly above the "v" the rest of the way.
I kept the lower casing above the hull because it had stainless washer imbedded init ( thought that worse case they would help me locate the original mounting holes. The 1 3/4" on each side was sanded down to wood along with the area where it attached to the stringers. The oak was1st coated in West epoxy and then wrapped in a biaxial fiberglass and wetted out. I left each end long on the bottom so it would fold up and contact the stringers. I then mixed up more epoxy and thickened it with West 404 structural filler and place that where it would contact the hull.
Then applied epoxy to the tabs,the previously sanded area of the stringers and sanded cross member. Then inserted the oak into place. From the back side of cross member I ran 2 1/2" stainless T25 screws in to my oak mount. I then sat back watched the epoxy squeeze slowly from where I had run my screws in..
After it dried for a 24he period I wet out the whole area. The rear of the mount facing the transom received my heavy fiberglass mat first (I used a few stainless staples to hold it in place ) ran it across the top of the mount and up the cross member and down the other side. Then wet the tops side of the fiberglass til it became completely saturated in epoxy.
Hope this clears up some of what was previously left out
Here is what I have done. Sorry about being so vague but this started as a father son project that once the computer came out it became a son watch's the father project.
The original wood core only touched the hull on each side roughly1 3/4". The bottom was directly above the "v" the rest of the way.
I kept the lower casing above the hull because it had stainless washer imbedded init ( thought that worse case they would help me locate the original mounting holes. The 1 3/4" on each side was sanded down to wood along with the area where it attached to the stringers. The oak was1st coated in West epoxy and then wrapped in a biaxial fiberglass and wetted out. I left each end long on the bottom so it would fold up and contact the stringers. I then mixed up more epoxy and thickened it with West 404 structural filler and place that where it would contact the hull.
Then applied epoxy to the tabs,the previously sanded area of the stringers and sanded cross member. Then inserted the oak into place. From the back side of cross member I ran 2 1/2" stainless T25 screws in to my oak mount. I then sat back watched the epoxy squeeze slowly from where I had run my screws in..
After it dried for a 24he period I wet out the whole area. The rear of the mount facing the transom received my heavy fiberglass mat first (I used a few stainless staples to hold it in place ) ran it across the top of the mount and up the cross member and down the other side. Then wet the tops side of the fiberglass til it became completely saturated in epoxy.
Hope this clears up some of what was previously left out