Man I wish this wouldn't have happened. I was upstairs in my
warehouse, and was moving around some "stuff" when I bumped into a
heavy, but empty 55 gallon metal drum, and sure enough it came right
down on my Marquis cuddy. This isn't any ordinary drum, it's one
that meets Int'l shipping standards, so the guage is much thicker so
it's heavier, and even though it didn't fall very far approx 5 ft,
well.....no damage done to the boat, but the nice aluminum rail that
wraps around the bow has a nice big dent in it and one of the mounts
is broken. Anybody know where I can get a reasonable repair for it? or
should I just take the whole thing off and not worry about it that is,
seeing it's purely cosmetic . it looks to me like it's probably one
piece of pipe that was custom bent with the hardware slid onto it in
the appropriate places to be mounted, and looks to me like a real
hassle to repair it, rather than see about getting a new one formed,
then again, that might be a bigger hassle yet. It looked cool, but
otherwise had no function. I think as i write this I'm thinking on
just doing away with it and replacing the hardware with rope cleats.
But anyhow, the boat is a '77 and Marquis has changed so many hands, I
doubt if ordering one from Marquis is even in the picture. does
anybody know where I might find one? If not... off it comes.

THANKS!

On Dec 26, 12:30�pm, Tim wrote:
Man I wish this wouldn't have happened. I was upstairs in my
warehouse, and was moving around some "stuff" when I bumped into a
heavy, but empty 55 gallon metal drum, and sure enough it came right
down on �my Marquis cuddy. �This isn't any ordinary drum, it's one
that meets Int'l shipping standards, so the guage is much thicker so
it's heavier, �and even though it didn't fall very far approx 5 ft,
well.....no damage done to the boat, but the nice aluminum rail that
wraps around the bow has a nice big dent in it and one of the mounts
is broken. Anybody know where I can get a reasonable repair for it? or
should I just take the whole thing off and not worry about it that is,
seeing it's purely cosmetic . it looks to me like it's probably one
piece of pipe that was custom bent with the hardware slid onto it in
the appropriate places to be mounted, and looks to me like a real
hassle to repair it, rather than see about getting a new one formed,
then again, that might be a bigger hassle yet. It looked cool, but
otherwise had no function. I think as i write this I'm thinking on
just doing away with it and replacing the hardware with rope cleats.
But anyhow, the boat is a '77 and Marquis has changed so many hands, I
doubt if ordering one from Marquis is even in the picture. does
anybody know where I might find one? If not... off it comes.

THANKS!

You can have a replacement rail fabricated at any $hop where they weld
$tainle$$ $teel. If it truly has no function, and on a 1977 cuddy
cabin- you could easily justify not spending the money to replace it.

"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
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On Dec 26, 12:30?pm, Tim wrote:

and even though it didn't fall very far approx 5 ft,
well.....no damage done to the boat, but the nice aluminum rail that
wraps around the bow has a nice big dent in it and one of the mounts
is broken. Anybody know where I can get a reasonable repair for it?


You can have a replacement rail fabricated at any $hop where they weld
$tainle$$ $teel. If it truly has no function, and on a 1977 cuddy
cabin- you could easily justify not spending the money to replace it.


A shop that has expertise in welding stainless is not necessary experienced
in welding aluminum.

Eisboch (who spent hours trying to weld aluminum to steel while the welders
laughed their butts off)

"Eisboch" wrote in message
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"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
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On Dec 26, 12:30?pm, Tim wrote:

and even though it didn't fall very far approx 5 ft,
well.....no damage done to the boat, but the nice aluminum rail that
wraps around the bow has a nice big dent in it and one of the mounts
is broken. Anybody know where I can get a reasonable repair for it?


You can have a replacement rail fabricated at any $hop where they weld
$tainle$$ $teel. If it truly has no function, and on a 1977 cuddy
cabin- you could easily justify not spending the money to replace it.


A shop that has expertise in welding stainless is not necessary
experienced in welding aluminum.

Eisboch (who spent hours trying to weld aluminum to steel while the
welders laughed their butts off)




You can combine them. Both Kaiser Industries did it with Military tanks and
a couple of the cookwares now attach aluminum to stainless.

"CalifBill" wrote in message
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"Eisboch" wrote in message
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"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
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On Dec 26, 12:30?pm, Tim wrote:

and even though it didn't fall very far approx 5 ft,
well.....no damage done to the boat, but the nice aluminum rail that
wraps around the bow has a nice big dent in it and one of the mounts
is broken. Anybody know where I can get a reasonable repair for it?


You can have a replacement rail fabricated at any $hop where they weld
$tainle$$ $teel. If it truly has no function, and on a 1977 cuddy
cabin- you could easily justify not spending the money to replace it.


A shop that has expertise in welding stainless is not necessary
experienced in welding aluminum.

Eisboch (who spent hours trying to weld aluminum to steel while the
welders laughed their butts off)




You can combine them. Both Kaiser Industries did it with Military tanks
and a couple of the cookwares now attach aluminum to stainless.


Yep. But not by welding.

Eisboch

On Dec 26, 2:48�pm, "Eisboch" wrote:
"Chuck Gould" wrote in message

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On Dec 26, 12:30?pm, Tim wrote:

and even though it didn't fall very far approx 5 ft,

well.....no damage done to the boat, but the nice aluminum rail that
wraps around the bow has a nice big dent in it and one of the mounts
is broken. Anybody know where I can get a reasonable repair for it?

You can have a replacement rail fabricated at any $hop where they weld
$tainle$$ $teel. If it truly has no function, and on a 1977 cuddy
cabin- you could easily justify not spending the money to replace it.

A shop that has expertise in welding stainless is not necessary experienced
in welding aluminum.

Eisboch �(who spent hours trying to weld aluminum to steel while the welders
laughed their butts off)

I would suggest rebuilding the whole works with stainless.

"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
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I would suggest rebuilding the whole works with stainless.

Me too, for a bow rail.

Many of the complex "tuna tower" contraptions on sportfish type boats are
made of hard anodized marine grade (I forget the series) aluminum to save
weight. Some are very nicely done.

Eisboch

On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 00:47:03 -0800 (PST), Chuck Gould
wrote:

You can have a replacement rail fabricated at any $hop where they weld
$tainle$$ $teel. If it truly has no function, and on a 1977 cuddy
cabin- you could easily justify not spending the money to replace it.

A shop that has expertise in welding stainless is not necessary experienced
in welding aluminum.

Eisboch ?(who spent hours trying to weld aluminum to steel while the welders
laughed their butts off)

I would suggest rebuilding the whole works with stainless.

There is an outfit called Tops In Quality:

http://topsinquality.com/power/railbow.htm

I bought a bow pulpit from them many years ago and it was priced
reasonably compared to custom local fabrication.

On Dec 27, 9:43*pm, Wayne.B wrote:
On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 00:47:03 -0800 (PST), Chuck Gould

wrote:
You can have a replacement rail fabricated at any $hop where they weld
$tainle$$ $teel. If it truly has no function, and on a 1977 cuddy
cabin- you could easily justify not spending the money to replace it.

A shop that has expertise in welding stainless is not necessary experienced
in welding aluminum.

Eisboch ?(who spent hours trying to weld aluminum to steel while the welders
laughed their butts off)

I would suggest rebuilding the whole works with stainless.

There is an outfit called Tops In Quality:

http://topsinquality.com/power/railbow.htm

I bought a bow pulpit from them many years ago and it was priced
reasonably compared to custom local fabrication.

Thanks for the link, Wayne. I'll take that into consideration as well..