Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Mast fracture issues

Well i managed to do it again got these in the wrong order. The mast has a small fracture that looked really big under the split glass. Just above the hole that connects the mast to the deck/ mast step. The official repair included sanding all glass off mixing epoxy and wood flower to mustard consistency, then forcing that into the fracture. Finally took enough glass material to make two raps of glass rather than just one. I also took the adventure of laying plastic food rap down on scrap ply wood taped it down, then wet out the glass, a thin layer of epoxy on mast then grabbed two corners of glass letting it hit just one side of mast, then used the weight of the glass to make sure it raped tight. The final product was much stronger but the glass job is more apparent to the eye than just one layer. I am having problems with my entire mast having small fractures where the scarf joints are. I am going to do a rebuild of mast this winter and have some ideas to make it stronger.


Here is what it looked like before sanding.