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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?
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Yeah, I’d say a few of us have seen that situation. A couple things to consider. Make sure that it is dry in there, epoxy does not like moisture. Rake out the bad core as far in as possible. An epoxy plug under just under the stanchion base will help with the compression load of the bolts, but leverage on the stanchion will crack the relatively thin deck skin unless there is wider support.
The place to stop deck leaks is outside on the deck. If the deck leaks, it’s far better that it leaks through the deck, not just inside it.
While you’re in there check your chain plates.
Quent
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Quent, I did rake out as far in as I could reach and stuffed epoxy into the dry area as far as it would go. Up forward it was dry enough that I felt I only needed to open the upper deck with a hole saw and added epoxy plugs as you said. That picture shows the worst one and I stuffed a considerable amount of epoxy in there, so hopefully that should be tough enough. I plan on rebedding everything on deck eventually but got to go sailing and get somewhere warmer too. I just might be looking to share a drink with Tor!
Ken
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