When buying my 424 I saw that all the stanchion bases had a bead of goop around them, so new I’d be rebedding them sooner or later. After a heavy rain I snooped around and found some dampness at the furthest aft backing plate that a PO had added some stainless steel plates. Unfortunately for me that was the only backing plate that anyone had ever touched and all he did is add a couple of plates. 33 years and I’m the very first person to even LOOK at the backing plates of the stanchions. They were all still covered by a headliner that was contact cemented right over the whole shebang! Never even tightened! After cutting my way through I removed the bases to find the core between the deck almost non-existent in a few places. I’ve now redone the whole port side with the worst bases being at the boarding gate, up forward all I did was use a hole saw on the deck layer and filled with epoxy.

What say you all, have you gone through this or have your PO’s taken better care?