Looking for Port cupholder 280DA

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Feb 4, 2007
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1996 450DA, TNT, Caribe dink w/15hp OB.
Engines
3126 427HP TD transmissions
Here's the part number as per the manual

725986 10 HOLDER, PLEX 250/270DA DRINK PORT DASH

it's that plastic 3 cup holder mounted on the port dash.

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I have a similar cupholder on my 270 - it's not very good.... it's actually on my list of things to replace/upgrade this year. The problem on mine (and I think on this one as well) is it is too shallow so drinks fall over very easily. I'm looking for something like the one below, hopefully with 3 instead of 2.

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go to Home depot and buy a couple of 1/2" spacers. Take off the 3-holder and put it back on with the spacers. I did it and works great and looks fine.
 
Mike
Did your's break? I have the same one and was going to make some spacers to extend it higher for beverages.
 
Mike, let me know if you find one as I need one also. (stepped on mine while waxing the arch)
 
tdappleman said:
I have a similar cupholder on my 270 - it's not very good.... it's actually on my list of things to replace/upgrade this year. The problem on mine (and I think on this one as well) is it is too shallow so drinks fall over very easily. I'm looking for something like the one below, hopefully with 3 instead of 2.

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Is that the SeaRay version? I went to buy that last year, but the dealer was sold out and suggested that I wait until spring to save the shipping charges. I think the price was under $30.
 
I sat on mine while cleaning the window and it cracked. I would like to get something better, stronger, more usable but haven't found anything yet. I was thinking of talking to a fabricator plastic dude and having a custom one made. then sell them to everyone that has these stupid cup holders. But in the meantime, I thought I would look for one to replace the cracked one.
 
The one on my 290 was cracked when I bought it, and I ignored the problem until a chunck finished cracking and separated from the rest of the holder. Not one of Sea Ray's brightest design ideas, IMO. I've got a nice piece of birch plywood left over from another project I'm going to use; I'll take the plastic piece loose (what's left of it), use that for a template, and cut the plywood to match. After sanding the edges, I'll stain it and coat it with polyurethane, then attach it to the dash. Should be less vulnerable to cracking than plastic.
 
TurtleTone said:
I sat on mine while cleaning the window and it cracked. I would like to get something better, stronger, more usable but haven't found anything yet. I was thinking of talking to a fabricator plastic dude and having a custom one made. then sell them to everyone that has these stupid cup holders. But in the meantime, I thought I would look for one to replace the cracked one.
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I was thinking of having my fabricator I use at work make me a new stainless one with the taller extensions.
 
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Henry Boyd said:
Here is what we came up with in teak. The shrink wrap crew got mine.

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Henry
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Nice job.. Me likey... Aside from holding drinks you have a place for cell phones, cameras, handheld VHFs etc.

Ok Norm.. So how did you make it? I must have missed that new yankee workshop episode.


It looks like your ripped the edges on table saw, screwed it together, counter sinking the screw heads and then plugged the holes. That was the easy part. A few questions.
  1. How did you make the 3 drink holder holes? Big hole saw or jig saw?
  2. Did you router the edges before joining the wood on that angle?
  3. How did you make that little curved bathtubby thing?
  4. How did you attach it the boat? I cant imagine that you just screwed it in from behind.
 
Vince_nj1 said:
Nice job.. Me likey... Aside from holding drinks you have a place for cell phones, cameras, handheld VHFs etc.

Ok Norm.. So how did you make it? I must have missed that new yankee workshop episode.


It looks like your ripped the edges on table saw, screwed it together, counter sinking the screw heads and then plugged the holes. That was the easy part. A few questions.
  1. How did you make the 3 drink holder holes? Big hole saw or jig saw?
  2. Did you router the edges before joining the wood on that angle?
  3. How did you make that little curved bathtubby thing?
  4. How did you attach it the boat? I cant imagine that you just screwed it in from behind.
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Close, but no cigar. The holes were cut first from the main piece using an adjustable cutter on a drill press.

The 'bathtub' was made from a pattern and using a router bit with a bearing. It is actually three rings that are laminated together. After laminating, the inside and outside are trimmed on the shaper table to the final size using another pattern. This gets rid of glue lines and any misalignment

Before the thing was assembled the angle of the dash was measured. The front piece was had the corners radiused. The top piece angle was cut. The front piece was installed as you suggest, cutting a single piece at an angle and then flipping the smaller piece over to get the angles.


Because the dash corner is also radiused, knees had to be fitted that were then cut to match the radius of the dash curve. Note that this requires two patterns. The curve on the port side is different from the stbd. The dash slightly swept, so the corner radius is slightly different. You can't see it but the port side knee is slightly larger.

After that the 'deck' has the edges cut with a router and radius bit. The bathtub has limber holes cut and then is installed on the deck, also screws and epoxy. Its top edges are then rounded over.

The rest is sanding and finishing. I attached it using 3M 4200.

It has worked out quite well. It is better at holding cans with insulators and glasses then wineglasses.

Henry
 
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Thanks for the response Henry. Me no likey any more. :smt009 That sounds like too way much work.:smt089. And you didnt even mention the 5 or 6 coats of finish. Can you do that in a 1/2 hour episode?

I have a lot of tools, but I don't have an "Adjustable cutter on a drill press or a shaper table. "shaper table", hell I don't even know what that is.

It is nice very though. You get an A+ for that one.
 
Vince,

The adjustable cutter is a a drill bit with a cross piece. On the cross piece is a holder that has a piece of sharp tool steel that hangs vertically. The distance from the center of the drill bit to the outer edge of the cutter is the radius of the circle you will cut.

A shaper table is an industrial strength router table. Unlike a router table, a shaper can make moulding, rails, stiles, and raised panels. One of the beauties of it is that shaper cutters are not one piece like a router bit. You start with a 3/4" shaft that mounts in the chuck. The cutters are basically disks that slide onto the shaft and are separated by spacers. For example you could make stair bannister by using two 1/4 radius cutters facing each other in one pass.

I really use it more like a router table with router bits. Setting it up to use it safely with cutter heads takes a lot of work and would only be worth it if I wanted to make custom moulding.

Here is another one I made for a friend that is a less complicated:

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Henry
 
Henry.. Thanks for the claification.. turns out I do have an adjustable drill bit. I don't have a drill press though. I have a Radial arm saw that can be "configured" to act as a drill press, but I never attempted that. I have used it with a drum sander attachement, but now I just use it for cross cuts and holding all of my junk from my last project. I really need to spend an entire weekend cleaning out an organizing my work shop, but it just never makes it to the top of my priority list.

You do nice work.. Working with all those curves add a lot of work the project. I try to avoid curves. I never really master the curved wood thing.
 
Mike, you must have the tan colored one as well. Mine was cracked when we bought the boat and Sea Ray does not make that color any more, only white. Maybe Henru can make some for the 280 crew. I would be willing to pay, also a new cockpit table would be great. Henry, do you take PayPal?
 
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