[Public-list] bilge epoxy et al

[dan walker]

well david i may as well jump in and tell you what i did. may catch hell from the list, but when i removed the engine, i kept looking at the grunge in the bilge and couldn't figure why it never seemed to dry. then i learned of the sand bottom. so stuck my hand down there and realized what i had. scooped the sand, oil slime out till i could not get any more, then used a shop vac to get the small  loose grains,  then used citrus orange cleaner to clean the sides and created a slurry of what was left and vacced that out. let it dry in the summer heat a few days, mixed small bactches of west system with microballoons poured that across the lowest point, took pieces of well cured oak, coated with epoxy,fitted the pieces in the space at the bottom,then put a few layers of glass across the bottom and up the sides. .will it all hold? i don't know, but give me two years and i will let you know. but it sure looks a lot better than before and i have found every screw and nut i have
 dropped down there
  dan

 
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