Hole patching.

[Shane]

Hi Guys...

Posted before about patching my boat, newly second hand boat purchased, but was just informed by the welders that the holw is unrepairable due to previous attempts to fix it.

So now I have a boat with a hole in it. Owner previous to me had used silicon to patch it but it had started to leak again. I was wondering if there is a more sea worthy product to use?

Hope someone can help me out. Going to take a while to save up for another hull

...Cheers

Shane

[C Steel]

If it is an aluminium boat it is fixable.

[Shane]

It is ali and the dudes at the welding place told me that they would not touch it.

[Baldy-Tas]

Hey Shane,

Take it somewhere else mate, old ali can be a bugger to work with but nothing is unfixable.
Where exactly is the hole? No doubt its under a rib or a seat

Cheers
Baldy

[will10]

Shane
I picked up a cheap car topper because it had 7 holes in it, got the mig out to fix them{yes i am a welder} and being only 1.2mm thick and decayed around the hole , well it got bigger
Time for a rethink , looked through the shelfs in the shed for a tube of stuff i brought a few years ago,and bugger me if it didnt work a treat, go to the hardware store a get some JB Weld , comes in 2 tubes costs about $16 ,i ended up finding 31 holes and didn't use the hole {parden the pun} tube


Chris

[BIG PETE]

Shane

i used a product called Sikaflex to fix a hole in my old dingy
what i did was cut a patch out of ally then put heaps of this stuff on cleaned up around the edges with prepsol then put some masking tape to hold it in place worked a bewdy the patches are still there after about 4 years and dont leak
dont get this stuff on your clothes as you will never get it out


BIG PETE

[breamdreamer]

Hi Shane

Try what the boys recommended to you. If all else fails and you wish to discuss it further, I know of this yobbo who has the crappiest dinghy on this planet. It has been welded numerous times indeed. It is also aluminium and a few welders too have refused to touch the job. In the past he has also used some temporary cheaper type of product from hardware stores. Eventually he found an aluminium welder who would do it, but apparently it's major work. If you are interested, PM me and I will give you his number. He also has a lot of yobbo mates in the boating and welding industry who know a bit about this kind of thing.

Cheers

[Shane]

Update. Used a combo of kneedit aqua and sikaflex. dont think the sikaflex had enough time to cure because the welders held onto it for so long. Well, let it have Saturday to dry some more, was a bit seedy after Saturday arvo

Took her out Sunday, YAY, obviously not enough time drying/didnt get all the leak. Had to bail now and then. Dropped the leccy, didnt work drove around till I found someone I knew and used their socket set. Removed about 20 metres of fishing line from the leccys shaft. Dropped it in the water again, no go, battery that came with the boat was dead. So up for a new battery, so slow leak will have to stay for a while

[rabbitoh]

My first alli boat was a 3.7mtr ex hire boat bought from boat hire mob for 400 bucks, when i got it home it had 42 sinkers on the floor that had shaken out of hiding, it had several ally patches and the new holes that came i hit with nead it or liquid nails, both worked very well, oh i called my boat apache!!!.