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Boat Forum / Building / September 2008MiniCup Repairs
Today I was shocked to find that my seriously beefed up MiniCup rudder boxes were rotten (Well, this is Florida). So I made patterns from the old ones and cut out the pieces. Cutting apart the old ones I found the reason they rotted was that after I had made them I simply could not get epoxy down into the interior to coat them. The new ones get epoxy coated before assembly. It also seems to be time to take apart MiniCup#1 as many of the old mild steel screws have rusted enough to swell the surrounding wood. On Sep 1, 9:43 pm, ohara...@mindspring.com wrote: > Today I was shocked to find that my seriously beefed up MiniCup rudder > boxes were rotten (Well, this is Florida). So I made patterns from [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > It also seems to be time to take apart MiniCup#1 as many of the old > mild steel screws have rusted enough to swell the surrounding wood. This time, I am gonna put a drain tube in her. On Sep 3, 11:50 pm, ohara...@mindspring.com wrote: > On Sep 1, 9:43 pm, ohara...@mindspring.com wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > This time, I am gonna put a drain tube in her. The old rudder box was made from the 3 mm bathroom underlayment I made the boats from and although I beefed it up and even glassed it this material is really crappy. The new one made from 1/4" marine ply is really strong even without being glassed yet. |
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