Transom holes help!

[Taylor]

I work at a hobby shop that was foreclosed and a new owner bought it will all the inventory I yanked this bare hull out with custom paint and started in on building it. Threw a dual rudder eBay p.o.s on it and trashe it the first run so their goes the second set of holes for rudder/strut mount now I just ordered from ose the speed master 1/4 strut and 5 inch setback speed master dual pickup rudder. Installed them and I have all these holes.. Help!? 50 inch aero marine baja I think

[tlandauer]

First of all, is the transom doubler still healthy? If you need to beef it up, I would take down all the hardware ( means you need to re drill), tape the holes from out side ( Electrical tapes ) and work on inside.
Here is what I did:
1, Make a doubler out from ply wood, 3/32" or 1/8" will do. make sure the out side of your mounting surface is true and straight, if not, don't use my method because the finished/beefed up transom will be so stiff and will not comform to the straight edges of your hardware. And, may crack the transom!!
2, You need to determind how much epoxy you need to flood the entire area of transom, I use 1oz mixing cup to pour water until I see about 1/4" of water flooding the transom. You don't need 1/4'' depth of goo, I needed it because the inside of my transom was not straight, in order for the ply wood to adhere properly, I had to raise the depth so the wood is floating level on the back.
3, I use West-System 2 part Epoxy. the Resin in a 32 fl oz can is numbered 105, the hardener is numbered 206, ( I choose #206 instead of 205 for slower/longer cure time ), I mixed this with their #404 High-Density Adhesive Filler. make the consistensy to "Catsup" like. Fill it up to flood the transom , 1/4" will be more than enough, put the ply wood down so it is floating on that stuff. Secure hull in up right position untill epoxy is cured. Peel off ouside tape and you may need to fill up the holes on the out side portion. ( see below)
If you don't want to add doubler:
1, Tape holes outside and go over the holes inside with the Exopy's consistency of "Mayonnaise", this is thicker than the other method.
2, After it is cured , peel of tape and fill up outside with same mix , use a hobby knife to smooth it out and scrape away any extra goo.
BTW, I let the epoxy to cure over night, it is time consuming, but I liked the results of my experiment.

[tlandauer]

BTW, this thread may be in the wrong place--- just saying, not trying to a smarta**!

[longballlumber]

I have used hardwood dowels to plug up unwanted holes with great success.

Later,
Mike

[Taylor]

Thanks guys for the info it is very helpful, now as far as the post in the wrong place, well haven't been on here in a while so I wasn't sure forum is completely different : / Thanks again guys!

[tlandauer]

I really hope you are not offended, only reason I brought it up is because it happened to me once and I was looking for people's response to my question for days and only much later did I see it being moved to the "correct catagory".