Prodject rot gut

what66

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:eek: Well I ve started to gut the rotren floor from my 1960 14ft fiberglass elign but the stuff is not wood any more it's like a sponge soaked with water.and had a layer of fber glass on top.<br />So any help you can give me would be great thanks. ;)
 

Chris1956

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Re: Prodject rot gut

What66 Use a skilsaw with a carbide blade to cut that stuff. Set the depth to 5/8" and try a test cut. Adjust to actual thickness of the floor. Remove all the rotten wood. Cut out all rotten stringers and frames. Replace stringers with glassed in solid lumber and flooring with plywood sealed on all sides with resin, screwed (with SS Screws) into the stringers and frames, and covered with resin and cloth. I like to use very dry wolmanized lumber for both stringers and floor. I also use polyester resin and lots of cloth for these kind of repairs.
 

outonbizniz2

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Re: Prodject rot gut

I used a 4 inch angle grinder with a "superdisk" which is a grinding/cutting disk available from home depot for under $10. It's nice to be able to cut the fiberglass and then grind whatever is left down smooth with one tool.
 

what66

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Re: Prodject rot gut

I have cut out the back half already using my angle grinder with metal cutting **** works great.<br />I discoved that all of the wood is water loged you can tanke it apart with your bare hands.<br />as for stringers there arent any is the stern area it's just 1x2 slates.<br />what I'm planing to do is move the floor up an 2-3" and make stringers and put foam in the floor and glass in a 1/2" playwood for the floor.
 

what66

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Re: Prodject rot gut

WEll bad news I decided after removing the bow floor I decided that it's not worth fixing.<br />so prodject rot gut is over.
 
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