While trailering the boat wend. I notice one of the screw heads on the brass bow guard showing more of a profile. Got home and sure enough it has backed out about a turn and a half. Must have happened when beaching it? Question is I know these have failed in the past. Is there something I need to do besides retighten it? I plan to have a keel guard covering said area in the next month or two. Thanks for any info.
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brass bow guard
- Thread starter Jake B
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I can think of a couple options, since you are putting on a Keel Guard.
1) Remove the brass strip entirely, filling the holes with thickened epoxy to seal them off (the KG will keep UV from the epoxy).
2) Re-secure the screw(s) and leave the strip in place.
I did #2. I figured that I might add a KG later, but knew that I might not, and/or it would be in the more distant future, so I probably did it more thoroughly than you want to, but this may give you some ideas anyway.
- First I removed all of the brass screws (I did half at a time, since I wasn't removing the brass strip) and poked into each hole with an ice pick. I wanted to see if I would hit solid resin or poke into the boat from a too-deep hole. I hit solid material on all of them, but still wanted to be sure, so...
- Next I cleaned out each hole with solvent/pipe cleaners/etc. to make sure the new epoxy would adhere.
- I ordered new fasteners. First of all, I have a 'thing" about flat headed screws in places where there is no bung over them (so I ordered oval heads); second I ordered them just a wee smidge shorter, so there would be more room for thickened epoxy.
- Taped off all around the holes.
- Cleaned the fasteners and the holes with solvent, and then put a "worm" of butyl tape around the underside of the head on each fastener.
- Mixed up some neat epoxy and "painted" the inside of the holes with a pipe cleaner.
- Put thickened epoxy in the bottom of each hole with a syringe (just a bit, as what I was aiming for was thickened epoxy in the bottom of the hole and partway up the screw threads, then butyl around the head of the screw and in the chamfer).
- Installed the new screws, then cleaned up any overflow.
Sunbeam
1) Remove the brass strip entirely, filling the holes with thickened epoxy to seal them off (the KG will keep UV from the epoxy).
2) Re-secure the screw(s) and leave the strip in place.
I did #2. I figured that I might add a KG later, but knew that I might not, and/or it would be in the more distant future, so I probably did it more thoroughly than you want to, but this may give you some ideas anyway.
- First I removed all of the brass screws (I did half at a time, since I wasn't removing the brass strip) and poked into each hole with an ice pick. I wanted to see if I would hit solid resin or poke into the boat from a too-deep hole. I hit solid material on all of them, but still wanted to be sure, so...
- Next I cleaned out each hole with solvent/pipe cleaners/etc. to make sure the new epoxy would adhere.
- I ordered new fasteners. First of all, I have a 'thing" about flat headed screws in places where there is no bung over them (so I ordered oval heads); second I ordered them just a wee smidge shorter, so there would be more room for thickened epoxy.
- Taped off all around the holes.
- Cleaned the fasteners and the holes with solvent, and then put a "worm" of butyl tape around the underside of the head on each fastener.
- Mixed up some neat epoxy and "painted" the inside of the holes with a pipe cleaner.
- Put thickened epoxy in the bottom of each hole with a syringe (just a bit, as what I was aiming for was thickened epoxy in the bottom of the hole and partway up the screw threads, then butyl around the head of the screw and in the chamfer).
- Installed the new screws, then cleaned up any overflow.
Sunbeam