[Public-list] bilge epoxy et al

[dan walker]

mike,
  concrete was suggested to me and i considered it. easier and cheaper. but i kept thinking it would allow moisture to migrate and in winter freeze. perhaps damaging the hull. suppose we always had the same problem with the sand that whitby put in there. i also did not paint because someone in the past cautioned about the flaking paint and the bilge pump etc.
   
  any more episodes of the work in progress?
_505 at hotmail.com> wrote:
  Dan - that is a unique solution - just as unique I have been considering 
concrete, after it hardens, then seal it with a layer of glass. These 
solutions all seem a little radical.



Mike Lehman
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Subject: [Public-list] bilge epoxy et al
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 08:56:34 -0800 (PST)

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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