Pirate Lady
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Best glue for holding in snaps that pulled out? Used PLxxxx something, worked great but left orange ring around snap. Need something that dries clear. And no, I ain’t gonna fill with resin and re drill.
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Ididntdoit
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use a bigger screw? why not just get a tube of six-10 or even some marine tex and do it right?
Don't be that guy
I take a leather punch tool and punch a hole in painters tape, put it over the hole it works perfect to mask. Walmart sells an off brand to compete with Marine Tex...works just as good and alot cheaper they are side by side in the store...same color box
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That’s the most effective solution. Anything else is going to fail eventually. And not much in the works of marine glue is clear. What is clear (epoxy) is not uv stable and yellows.
IMO, this is a case of do it right once, or do it a different way repeatedly. Filling and drilling using some quick set epoxy really isn’t hard. Speaking from experience.
superwa
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Had never heard the hole puncher trick. Nice!
Henry Boyd
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If it was Plexus, all their products are structural adhesives, so maximum overkill in the fixit department. I’m using it to glue on a trim fence, kind of a permanent trim tab, to improve the trim adjustment. The whole thing is an old upgrade the PO never did and the factory provided all of the parts and materials, so it’s legit stuff.
Filling and redrilling is the only way to fix it right if you are reinstalling the snap. Fiberglass is very hard and brittle, so for screw threads to properly take the hole must be a specific size; too small and the screw thread creates too much pressure and fractures the glass, too large and the screw rattles around and bashes the glass and creates a larger hole. Even filling the hole with the usual matchstick is bound to fail for the same reason.
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As far as rig jobs go, I've heard a tystrap last longer than a match stick.
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You can buy an oversize snap. Larger thread size.
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This is probably in the Maximum Over-kill column as well, but I don't care how much trouble it is, I just plan to fix stuff once. We had a detail guy years ago that hated cleaning and waxing around the snap studs in the transom so he would unscrew them and remove the studs to be able to polish the transom with his buffer. Sooner or later the screws on the snaps wallowed out the holes in the the holes run the fiberglass. I keep West Systems Resin and hardener around so I mixed up a batch, thickened it, filled all the snap holes, then redrilled them to 1/8" diameter when the epoxy cured. I replaced the snap studs and used 1/8" pop rivets with backing washers on the rivets to reattach the snaps. I never had one get loose or come out.
I do that every other year take the shock cord knobs off the transom and a few snaps.... it really makes it easier... haven’t wore any out though as I am careful not to apply too much torque