RaisedByWolves
Well-known member
I dont know what the boneheaded previous owner of my hull was thinking, but there are enough holes from mounting fish finders to sink the Titanic.
I know for sure this was a one owner hull, but it looks like the guy bought and mounted every newfangled FF that came out with no concept of reusing the old holes or really much else for that matter.
So when I removed the FF that was on the hull to install my new SI Ff I was dismayed to find 8-10 holes all within inches of each other. #-o
Looked like this.
Once I cleaned up the surface it looked even worse as some holes weren't readily visible in the daylight.
Now for the meat of what Im getting at. A lot of guys use JB weld to patch holes, and thats fine, its what Im using here. What I wanted to add is a better way to prep your holes before slathering them with that wonderful grey goo.
Im going to show you the two holes I have access to both sides of.
What I did was countersink both sides of these holes to form a cross section that looks like this >=< or this if you dont have a proper countersink this )=( can be done with a simple file or oversized drill.
Example.
Inside:
Outside:
I have no idea why so many extra pics are showing up. ](*,)
I know for sure this was a one owner hull, but it looks like the guy bought and mounted every newfangled FF that came out with no concept of reusing the old holes or really much else for that matter.
So when I removed the FF that was on the hull to install my new SI Ff I was dismayed to find 8-10 holes all within inches of each other. #-o
Looked like this.
Once I cleaned up the surface it looked even worse as some holes weren't readily visible in the daylight.
Now for the meat of what Im getting at. A lot of guys use JB weld to patch holes, and thats fine, its what Im using here. What I wanted to add is a better way to prep your holes before slathering them with that wonderful grey goo.
Im going to show you the two holes I have access to both sides of.
What I did was countersink both sides of these holes to form a cross section that looks like this >=< or this if you dont have a proper countersink this )=( can be done with a simple file or oversized drill.
Example.
Inside:
Outside:
I have no idea why so many extra pics are showing up. ](*,)