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How do I repair a pitted and corroded transom? Large holes?
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<blockquote data-quote="Country Dave" data-source="post: 298999" data-attributes="member: 10344"><p><em>Wood is much like a natural sponge, it’s going to drink up as much moister/water as it can if given the opportunity. The problem with the aluminum is, when it has moister trapped against it, the moister won’t evaporate and starts pitting the aluminum. </em></p><p><em>I don’t know what your budget is for this build but if it were me, I would put some self etching primer and some paint on the transom plate, back it up with a peace of 0.90 or 0.125 make a nice wood core, seal the wood core in a LIGHT coat of fiberglass resin and you will get 10 good years out of it if not longer. Sorry for the run on sentence. :LOL2: </em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>When drilling holes in the transom for mounting the outboard or whatever, make sure you put a bunch of 5200 in the holes you drilled and on the bolts themselves. Any little void and water will find its way in to the wood core. Just my 2 cents brother. </em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Good luck with your build. </em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Country Dave, post: 298999, member: 10344"] [i]Wood is much like a natural sponge, it’s going to drink up as much moister/water as it can if given the opportunity. The problem with the aluminum is, when it has moister trapped against it, the moister won’t evaporate and starts pitting the aluminum. I don’t know what your budget is for this build but if it were me, I would put some self etching primer and some paint on the transom plate, back it up with a peace of 0.90 or 0.125 make a nice wood core, seal the wood core in a LIGHT coat of fiberglass resin and you will get 10 good years out of it if not longer. Sorry for the run on sentence. :LOL2: When drilling holes in the transom for mounting the outboard or whatever, make sure you put a bunch of 5200 in the holes you drilled and on the bolts themselves. Any little void and water will find its way in to the wood core. Just my 2 cents brother. Good luck with your build. [/i] [/QUOTE]
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