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Hello,
My sectional SW is dropped from saw horses on to the ground. A corner is bent and damage. It's about a half inch big. I'm trying to fix it by using thickened epoxy. Please see the pictures. I know it is not going to be pretty but is it a good fix? Do I need to patch it with fiberglass?
https://photos.app.goo.gl/NAV1sVEXmfpL3h7P7
Chi
2 replies:
RE: Fix a damage
That's simple cosmetic damage and you are doing the right thing in fixing it with a dam that you fill with epoxy. My only recommendation would be to use wood-flour epoxy from now on. The wood flour will give you a better color match than the clear epoxy alone. Your repair is probably going to be stronger than the original structure.
Chin up. Move on!
RE: Fix a damage
» Submitted by hspira - Fri, 11/19/21 » 4:14 PM
Hi Chi,
i looked at your pictures. everybody is a bit different on how they see these things.
if it was me, i would probably put glass over it just becuase of where the damage is and you are building a sectional which i think may subject that area to more stress than a non-sectional.
when i have to do repairs i break it down into what structural issue i may have to address.....and then how do i make it look nice....but they are kind of two different thought exercises.
in a normal shearwaterr, all the forces that keep the hull from folding are transmitted through the hull/deck plys and their associated skins. and the forces are uniform and spread out. in a sectional, everything in the ends comes through the four bolts/the bulkhead and the attachment of the bulkheads back to the skins.....so since this involves the bulkhead/skin juncture, i just would want to make sure that was strong in a way that glass becomes important vs just cosmetic gap filling.
for cosmetics on this, i would have just gone with clear epoxy to improve the color match. you build a dam that would have held it in place. so glass over a clear epoxy gap filling is also an approach you can use.
anyway, that is my thinking,
h