Help with small repair (I hope)

[samagy16]

Attached is a picture of my bow ladder and anchor locker. As you can see the door and it's hinge ripped right off and all of the holes where the screws go are all destroyed so I can't just screw the door and it's screws back in.

Any suggestions on how I can redo this surface to drill new holes and reinstall door and screws. Is this something that I can resolve using marine tex by filling the holes and redrilling. Never done this before, or used marine tex but seems to be a product that can help me prep and refill the holes and solve this issue.

Simple fix or not??

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Capt'n Chris]

Re: Help with small repair (I hope)

To do it right, fasten a strip of 1/2" something (ie pt plywood, or really anything) to the back side by drawing it up tight behind the holes with, yes...more screws. You might adhere the backer strip with 5200 so it will remain in position while those new screws hold it. Is there anything back there now or is it just glass? When the 5200 or other adhesive has set up, remove your screws and fill the holes. Fill the holes with your Marine Tex and sand smooth. When dry, you can touch up with gel coat or paint to match...white is tough, but can be done and drill new holes offset from those you have repaired. You probably should thru-bolt with maybe #8 x 24 or 32 s/s with nylock nuts and washers thru to the backside of the wood strip. An effort, yes...boats are!!!

The Captain

 

[a70eliminator]

Re: Help with small repair (I hope)

I doubt he has access to the back of it.

 

[Brokenjaw]

Re: Help with small repair (I hope)

very simple...

fill old holes with 3M 5200 fast cure.

Drill NEW holes in the Piano hinge on your hatch.
Mark those holes on your boat, drill, 5200 those holes, screw in screws, done.

 

[a70eliminator]

Re: Help with small repair (I hope)

Well there ya go, have a ball drilling holes though that stainless hinge.

 

[Brokenjaw]

Re: Help with small repair (I hope)

Well there ya go, have a ball drilling holes though that stainless hinge.

LMAO

Yeah thats true, get yourself some good drill bits.

I have the Thunderbolt set from Snap-on. Only 189.00 for the set

 

[samagy16]

Re: Help with small repair (I hope)

very simple...

fill old holes with 3M 5200 fast cure.

Drill NEW holes in the Piano hinge on your hatch.
Mark those holes on your boat, drill, 5200 those holes, screw in screws, done.

Gentlemen,

Thank you for your response.

Brokenjaw, I'm a bit confused, I know drilling new holes in the hinge is going to be REAL FUN but I'm confused about why I would be 5200 the new holes that I drill. Can you explain? Also, at the end am I installing screws in all of the holes now in the hinge? Old and new?

Thank man, want to do this right and never have to worry about this again. This is something that happened over time and I want to fix it right.

 

[This_lil_fishy]

Re: Help with small repair (I hope)

Adding 5200 to the new holes and putting the screws in before it cures will help hold the new screws in place, hopefully preventing the same problem from happening again. If you have access to the back side of that, I'd clean and fix the cracks with some fresh gel coat repair (kits are abour $40 here). Then get some new stainless machine screws, nylon lock nuts and washers. Then put the nuts and washers on the backside of the fiberglass to hold everything in place. But that only works if you have access to the backside of that...good luck.


Ian

 

[samagy16]

Re: Help with small repair (I hope)

Adding 5200 to the new holes and putting the screws in before it cures will help hold the new screws in place, hopefully preventing the same problem from happening again. If you have access to the back side of that, I'd clean and fix the cracks with some fresh gel coat repair (kits are abour $40 here). Then get some new stainless machine screws, nylon lock nuts and washers. Then put the nuts and washers on the backside of the fiberglass to hold everything in place. But that only works if you have access to the backside of that...good luck.


Ian

Gotcha,

BTW, I don't have access to the back, anything I do must be done right as you can see in the pic, from the front.

 

[Lion hunter]

Re: Help with small repair (I hope)

If there is room take a 1/16 or 1/8 piece of flat stock aluminum and fasten it between the existing holes(will have to countersink these holes) then attach the hinge to the aluminum.