As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
The Mennonite brethern were moving and had a busted canoe as their friends were borrowing it and looked like they tried to split it in half. For 50 bucks it seemed like something which would be salvageable, so for 50 bucks and a host of online suggestions in how to repair this canoe were read.
Aluminum can not really be welded, unless by people who know what they are doing and I wondered about the welding being something which would not crack as this was a canoe with things flexing.
I had punched a hole in an aluminum duck boat when the mother was still alive and in that from the hardware store came home with some kind of aluminum caulk. I have no idea what it was, it was above water line, but it seemed to hold.
So I came to Dap in the rubber aluminum fix and that is what the above is about. This stuff seemed to dry quite well and it seemed to work as I did clean the surface and it did spread on with a butter knife.
I had two cracks to seal with, pounded them down the best I could, and then spread the Dap on the inside and the outside. It looks pretty close to the aluminum, and in testing I will see if it will hold.
It certainly will be better than the plastic shopping bags which were stuffed in to slow down the leaks.
In checking on how things were situated, I noticed a few rivets were cracked off in the crack up. I will get some brass bolts and nuts, put some dap to seal them and tighten them up and see how that solves that problem.
I do plan on getting water wings for this canoe, as I can not swim and I need something stable so it does not tip over as I'm not the trusting sort.
If the Dap does not work, then I will try the other things I invested in, but this was easy and to the need at the moment.
Nuff Said
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