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Originally posted by OTTERLY COOL:
Hey Fellowship !!!
How Ya' Doin'?
Thanks for answering the other night.
I'm directing this to you since you seem to be pretty knowledgeable and helpful.
As I said the other night when I joined the board, I have a wet transom in my 23 I/O. It's not soaked but pretty damp. Strangely enough it's not that wet by the bell housing but there seems to be an "H" pattern of wetness formed by the outer edges with a bar across the middle of the entire transom - each leg of the H is about a foot wide.
One of the other fellows suggested that since I don't have 700 lbs. of outboards hanging off the back, it's probably no too critical. On the other hand, while I agree with his observation, I would like to fix the problem as well as possible without ripping off the transom (which in my case would obviously require taking the outdrive apart).
What are your ideas on the situation and how would you "fix" it without redoing the whole thing?
Thanks
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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hi:
I bought a Seacraft that had been sitting on land for 8 years and found that the transom was in pretty rough shape. Water had gotten into it, but the underlying wood was pretty dry. I removed the aluminum strip, ground he rough spots back and then poured an epoxy (I used Epiglass because it is the runniest of the epoxies) into the warped plywood. After the Epiglass had had time to penetrate the wood, I clamped weverything down tight, both fore and aft and vertically until epoxy oozed out from the joints. When the whole mixt had cured it was ground back and a couple of small holes drilled to see how far the epoxy had penetrated. I then made a thick mix of epoxy and buttered over the holes, the transom sides and top. When the whole thing cured it was ground back smooth and looks ok. If seems to work, but we are installing the engine in a day or two, so we'll have more holes to see how far the epoxy penetrated.