Re: Mangled pontoon. Is it fixable?
There was quite alot more to the boat than tubes, it was a 28' I/O Q which is our flagship model, sink, granite counter tops, power bimini ect ect.
As much as I would love to make you a set of tubes just getting what I need out of the line is enough of a challenge and we are going up again in January, also we are a manufacturer and don't do any retail, our customer is the dealer and you are the dealers customer.
We do sell damaged tubes but not to the public so you would have to go through a dealer and all that is well above my pay grade.
I am going in again today for hopefully the last time to finish laying out my weld line, we moved the rail department to the building that housed Azure and tore down the wall between them so I get a 500' straight shot for my weld line, which still barely fits, I still need to place 2 departments and 8 more welders, a couple air drops and then I am done, I sure hope it works, it looked good on paper but you know how that is.
Sam, we do try to save the tubes we can but cutting them up and rewelding them rarely works since they usually end up getting boogered up somewhere in the proccess, I did cut the nose cones off an elliptical tube last week but they are very expensive and take along time to build and that was pretty non invasive and quick.
I will buff a scratch or change an end cap or deck brackets but beyond that it isn't time effective to cut tubes up and save them, we are doing almost 30 boats a day.
We make them pretty much like the video that was going around here last week in concept but most of the proccess are different, I have guys from Southbay, Godfrey and Starcraft/Smoker and all 4 companies do the the same thing 4 different ways, in the end we all end up with a tube on the ground but in 4 very different ways.
