split tiller
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We offer magnificent laminated African mahogany and ash tillers, here's a link to that page of our site:
http://shop.sailboatowners.com/detail-custom_tillers.htm?group=721
You could epoxy and clamp that one:
http://shop.SailboatOwners.com/detail.htm?group=1475
Happy 4th of July!
http://shop.sailboatowners.com/detail-custom_tillers.htm?group=721
You could epoxy and clamp that one:
http://shop.SailboatOwners.com/detail.htm?group=1475
Happy 4th of July!
If only to make the season clamp,glue,and maybe drill top to bottom and stainless bolt together.Should last till replaced.
Having spent more than my fair share of frightful hours nursing a cracked tiller in heavy weather I would urge you to replace it and also to carry on board a suitable emergency replacement. Our 15 year old one was repaired and lasted close to 3 years before it failed again at the worst possible time.
Looks like it split on a glue line, clean it as well as possible and use epoxy to reglue it, clamp tight till it sets.
If you can't get it clean, clamp it tight enough to close the split, then run a narrow kerf handsaw through the split to just past it, then epoxy a thin strip of wood in the new slot.
Laminations normally work better if the bolts don't go between the layers.
If you can't get it clean, clamp it tight enough to close the split, then run a narrow kerf handsaw through the split to just past it, then epoxy a thin strip of wood in the new slot.
Laminations normally work better if the bolts don't go between the layers.
If I needed to make a permanent repair on that, I would probably do something containing elements from all the suggestions so far:
- clean the split as much as possible (if necessary, kerf it as per Kendall). If other laminations are starting to go, kerf them as well.
- get as much epoxy as possible into all the split(s) then clamp til set
- Now, using a router table, or very carefully on a table saw, remove about 1/8" of material from all 4 sides of the last 6" or so of the epoxied end. Round the edges of this new area as well
- Wrap this area tightly with glass cloth and epoxy. Build it back up to the original thickness.
-re-drill the boltholes
Finish with a good UV-stable coating, like a two-part urethane, or good spar varnish.
I defy this to split again.
(on the other hand, maybe a new tiller is justified
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- clean the split as much as possible (if necessary, kerf it as per Kendall). If other laminations are starting to go, kerf them as well.
- get as much epoxy as possible into all the split(s) then clamp til set
- Now, using a router table, or very carefully on a table saw, remove about 1/8" of material from all 4 sides of the last 6" or so of the epoxied end. Round the edges of this new area as well
- Wrap this area tightly with glass cloth and epoxy. Build it back up to the original thickness.
-re-drill the boltholes
Finish with a good UV-stable coating, like a two-part urethane, or good spar varnish.
I defy this to split again.
(on the other hand, maybe a new tiller is justified
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