Repair of transom support poles
J3ff
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I have one on each side that basically the head fell off of.
All 8 were "professionally" repaired when the motor was swapped 5 years ago.
5 years ago water was coming out of the lowest hole when brought on to land... That hasn't happened again, I've been looking for it, but here we are today.
What would you do to fix this? Do I even want to try to get the others out?
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For epoxy, I used this: https://www.westmarine.com/west-system-g-flex-650-8-liquid-epoxy-resin-and-hardener-9223132.html
If it starts getting stubborn don't hit it for all it's worth, go inside, respray and tap it back the other way. Repeat each direction a few times until she comes out without much fuss.
Chinese stainless is crap.
Any thoughts are appreciated.
I'm with you until you say drill new holes and then re-seal with 4200.
Somewhere in the realm of five or six years ago when I had the motor changed they found that these holes were leaking. At that point they asked me if I wanted them repaired or not and of course I had them repair it. Now you might assume that the repair would be cleaning out the holes cleaning up the material around it using some epoxy as mentioned above and making sure everything looked really good. Unfortunately the shop charged me $125 an hour to fill it with what looks like 4200.
Will be doing it the correct way this time.
On to other issues