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Re: Drain plug help

by JETMORE » Aug 02, 2014 6:14 pm

absolutely, every area that can hold water, put a hole. if if you get the wood good and warm, then you can drill the holes needed, and simply keeping wetting out until the wood won't draw any more water.

Re: Drain plug help

by Stellix » Aug 02, 2014 4:23 pm

Thanks. I got the stringers in, do I need to put a hole at the rear of them to let water drain from the sides in the box at the drain plug area?

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Re: Drain plug help

by JETMORE » Aug 02, 2014 4:09 pm

yeah, wet it out, both the hole and the brass, after you scratch it with some 60 grit or so, and put some slightly thickened (ketchup consistency) resin on the brass, and then do your crimp to instll.

Re: Drain plug help

by Stellix » Aug 02, 2014 3:43 pm

After redrilling the resin filled hole do I add wet resin then install the brass sleeve ? Do I crimp the sleeve while the resin is still wet?

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Re: Drain plug help

by JETMORE » Aug 02, 2014 12:53 pm

only thing about using 5200 is that if the bilge ever gets soaked with some gas it can softer, or weake the 5200, and, some metals don't bond worth a darn to 5200. best thing to do is oversize the hole by about 3 sizes, wet it out with epoxy until the wood won't soak anymore, then back-fill with thickened epoxy (silica, or microfiber), let it harden, redrill and place the tube in with more thickened epoxy.

Re: Drain plug help

by 265mercman » Jul 30, 2014 2:20 pm

I just resined mine in and made the hole in wood were plug had to be tapped in transomstands way is great also goodluck

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Re: Drain plug help

by transomstand » Jul 30, 2014 2:01 pm

5200 and the sleeve requires a crimping tool

http://www.jamestowndistributors.com/userportal/document.do?docId=1022

Re: Drain plug help

by Stellix » Jul 30, 2014 7:36 am

When you put the brass sleeve in did you put resin in the hole or did you seal the sleeve with 5200?

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Re: Drain plug help

by 265mercman » Jul 30, 2014 3:08 am

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Re: Drain plug help

by 265mercman » Jul 30, 2014 2:58 am

yess theres a block of wood buy a new drain hole plug usually brass put it thru hole then measure the length sticking out on the inside make a piece to fit were plug is slightly outsude if block ill look for a pick from my restore

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