I am going to be epoyxing a wood wedge onto my transom to offset the angle so my motor bracket will be straigt. I have gotton through about 40 years of paint jobs down to the gel coat, do i need to also remove the gel coat befor the epoxy and glass?
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ya I plan on gluing it and glassing it to seal it off from water. As far as the backing i already epoxied in 1/2 in ply custum cut to fit the shape from the gudgon backer over and glassed it in and I have a piece of 1/8 stainless that is 3in in each direction bigger thatn the foot print of the motor mount.
a lot of trouble and expense when you can buy ready to bolt on 5 degree trim plates to match your outboard mount holes for about 35 bucks.
The good thing about the block is that it places the outboard away from the transom and not only provides the necessary angles needed for the outboard, but also the space between the bracket and the transom to tilt the motor up without messing with the bracket. This may depend on the size of the sailboat though.
Denise is right though. The block doesn't need to be epoxied to the transom.
I would worry about epoxying the block in the wrong place and having to remove it.
One of my friends ran into this problem on his O'Day 26 and he wound up patching about four holes in his transom. He also constructed his own block out of wood and epoxy but the block is movable if need be by unbolting it from the transom. This is just something to think about.
In the words of the famous frontiersman Davy Crockett, "Be sure you're right, then go ahead."
Denise is right though. The block doesn't need to be epoxied to the transom.
I would worry about epoxying the block in the wrong place and having to remove it.
One of my friends ran into this problem on his O'Day 26 and he wound up patching about four holes in his transom. He also constructed his own block out of wood and epoxy but the block is movable if need be by unbolting it from the transom. This is just something to think about.
In the words of the famous frontiersman Davy Crockett, "Be sure you're right, then go ahead."
ok so if i don't epoxy it (which I like by the way) I have a couple questions. First the transom has a curve to it so i was banking on the epoxy to make the contour for me and second is if i don't epoxy it I would just glass the wedge to seal it and then use caulking to seal it to the boat?
I would try to shape the back side of the block so that it fits the contour of the transom. Then I would slightly countersink the bolt holes on both the outside transom and the face of the block in which the bracket will butt up against, and use 3-M 4200 to caulk and seal it. The 4200 will adhere that block to the transom very similar to epoxy and seal out moisture.
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