[Public-List] Engine mounts

[Wes Gardner via Public-List]

Maybe a couple of strips of woven roving. That stuff builds thickness pretty quick, then some thickened epoxy maybe with chopped glass in it?

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> On Sep 28, 2014, at 12:21 PM, Glenn Brooks via Public-List <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
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> I am just getting ready to remount my engine mounts to steel flanges bolted to fiberglass bed built up on the hull.
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> I have moved two of the steel flanges1/4" to starboard to provide more room for aligning the shaft, however this leaves a 1/4" gap between the vertical part of the flanges and the fiberglass bed.  
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> Wondering what I should fill this gap with? The flanges need to fit flush against the bed to provide additional stability I think, hence I should build up the gap to bed the flanges.
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> 30 years ago whoever re powered the boat appears to have used some kind of hardened filler - similar to  bondo, but not as hard and rigid.  The old stuff came off in pliable chunks with a chisel and boat knife. The material is jot the same as the old gray putty used by Whitby. 
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> Thanks much
> Glenn B.
> Dolce 318
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