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Flying Pig Damage Assessment and update
If it were my boat and the joint were structurally important, i'd gain
access to the loose tabbing, cut away the separated leaf of tabbing, grind both sides of the joint and lay up new tabbng with epoxy. "KLC Lewis" wrote in message et... Skip, Regarding the "pulling it apart and flowing-in epoxy" -- yes, that will work with certain caveats: How clean is the material on either face which will be epoxied together? Oil-free is good, of course, but if the two surfaces pulled cleanly away from each other, leaving little glass on the wood or wood on the glass, they weren't bonded strongly-enough to begin with. Trying to rebond them with epoxy won't be very strong, and eventually that joint will fail again. New epoxy won't form a primary bond with old polyester resin. If, in pulling apart, plenty of glass was left in the wood or visa-versa, then the glue joint was as strong as it could have been. But in either case, rebonding without mechanical fasteners will be weaker than the original joint which failed. You might want to consider, rather than screws through the glass into the bulkheads, using through-bolted hardwood battens at least half an inch thick to help spread the load and reinforce that joint. If at all possible, I would want to laminate those battens into place, making a "wood-glass-wood-glass-wood" sandwich bolted and epoxied together. "Skip Gundlach" wrote in message ups.com... This seems to be the best thread in which to insert this... George Huffman, of "The Dinghy Dock" newsletter, made a post in Renegades, offering his help as soon as his own vehicular challenges are resolved... Hi, George, and onlookers, It keeps getting better... The transportation issue isn't yet resolved - but there's a distinct possibility in the area. I just got a mail from my surveyor, ex-QC and Service Manager for Morgan during the entire time of building our boats. The short story is that if the detabbing is at the bulkhead and the bulkhead hasn't been compromised with oil products (fuel, oil, etc.), just wedging it open, flowing in epoxy and then screwing it down will rebond and, as my wife, and England-raised lady, sez, "Bob's your uncle!" I'm going to follow up to see if one *must* screw it back down (vs, e.g., wedging i.e. are the screws necessary for structural integrity, or just used to pull it tight?) to make it happen. If wedging will suffice, likely we won't have to pull the tanks, minimizing an already labor intensive project into something far more manageable. I'm already into project management mode, but Lydia's still in full depression, as the enormity of the elephant she has to eat is still too close to analyze. She doesn't do patience, or methodical long- term results. "Lord, give me patience - and I want it *right now!!!* - funny, but unfortunately true for her generally, let alone under these circumstances. Yet, all this will pass, and we'll have the most amazing stories to tell around the potlucks out in the Caribbean, or to the BoyScouts we might do charters for on their Extreme Adventure series "Sail the Keys" once this is all settled. Not quite Robinson Cruso, or the other which escapes me about the swiss family, but still entertaining, if you don't have to deal with the pain of the real possibility of losing your home and every one of your possessions. Yet, I'm struck by how fortunate we are in comparison, for example, of some of the Rita/Katrina/Wilma/Ivan survivors. We're truly blessed, including by such as you all. Love to all of you kind souls, most of whom we don't even know exist, having never even corresponded, let alone met... L8R Skip Morgan 461 #2 Disaster link: http://ipphotos.com/FlyingPig.asp SV Flying Pig KI4MPC See our galleries at www.justpickone.org/skip/gallery! Follow us at http://groups.google.com/group/flyingpiglog and/or http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheFlyingPigLog "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain |
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