[Public-list] More Deck Stuff

Don Campbell dk.campbell at sympatico.ca
Wed Nov 23 08:42:38 PST 2005


for the flexmolds contact Gibco Flex-mold in Texas at 817-236-5021 or
gibco at swbell.net Peter Hay did contact them for samples and none fit
exactly but at least if you want to do the whole of an area, you will
have a non-skid pattern. See also epoxyworks #22 winter 2004 at
www.westsystem.com
Don

Peter Staehling wrote:

> After looking, tapping, consulting, pondering, etc. I
> am starting to feel like I am ready to start repairs
> as weather allows.  I would like to solicit comments
> on the following stuff.
>
> It looks to me as if there are fairly small
> delaminated areas along the side of the cabin.  I
> think these are a good candidate for epoxy injection
> and I plan to proceed a little at a time as weather
> permits.
>
> The more extensive area is the aft deck on the
> starboard side which is almost totally delaminated
> from a few inches from the hatch to a few inches from
> the toerail.  I think that if the core isn't
> completely shot I may try epoxy injection there too,
> but it is a pretty large area.
>
> If the core is shot, I wonder about cutting the
> section out, replacing the core and putting it back.
> This would allow the nonskid to be kept intact.  There
> isn't much smooth area outside the non skid to grind
> tapers in for glassing it back in place though.
>
> If that doesn't pan out redoing the deck in that area
> would be the last option I guess, but then I lose the
> nonskid in that area.
>
> There are a few messy repairs in the nonskid on
> various parts of the deck already and if things get
> much uglier with my additional repairs, I wonder about
> grinding off the nonskid and applying Treadmaster in
> it's place.  That would allow cosmetic patching to the
> point where the deck could be attractive again.  It
> would also be a lot of work.
>
> I also wonder about using a rubber mold to fix bad
> spots in the nonskid (after shallowly routing out the
> patched area).  I saw some info on that on West
> Systems page.  Anyone here done that?
>
> Pete Staehling
> #554
>
>
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