Advice on bad brazing

[508]

The more layers I take off this boat the more messes I find. It looks like someone fixed missing/broken rivets with pop rivets and nuts & bolts with some real sloppy brazing to seal it up.

Should I grind off the braze, or am I better off working around it?

 

[CedarRiverScooter]

Are those welds leaking?

 

[508]

@CedarRiverScooter some of them are. My plan is to replace leaky rivets and seal everything with gflex. Not sure if grinding down the welds could cause more problems vs just using gflex on them. The other problem is they used stainless hardware.

 

[zekepa]

That's a tuff choice. For the leaking ones I would be tempted to try removing and replacing with a solid rivet then using the G Flex. I'd try to do it on at least one, depending on how the first one went would determine if I tried anymore of just went with G Flex.

 

[BillPlayfoot]

I agree with zekepa's suggestion

 

[508]

Thanks @zekepa and @BillPlayfoot. I'll try grinding down the least offensive one and see how it goes.

Either way my plan was to drill out the rivet or bolt under the braze, just not sure how wise it is to try to grind off all the extra material.