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Hi

Anyone have any advice of what to use to stick new timber to the interior of the fibreglass/metal shell?

We recently discovered water-ingress thru the 3 front windows of our 1989 ABI Daystar & so have stripped back completely to the skin & removed all rotten wood. Looks like someone had a go before but hasn't done the job properly, as there's loads of no-nails & silcone.

We have the new rubber window seals, but my wonderful carpenter hubby, needs to know what to fix the new wood to the skin with, before he can crack on with re-building.

Any advice warmly recd

Jackie

i did my daughters coachman.i removed the lot and stuck new timbers in with gorrila glue.got it from ebay. you could also use sikaflex.you will also need a few clamps to hold it in place.

neil

Be careful what you are sticking to!!  If the area is fibreglass (you will see the random strands of chopped strand matting on the inside) if not it will be ABS plastic which is a completely different matter!

Fibreglass can be stuck using a fibreglass repair kit from Halfords, but it will not stick to ABS plastic.  My ABS plastic front is stapled to the wood around the front windows.

Sticking wood to the aluminium can be achieved with contact adhesive where necessary, and as hubby is a joiner he will know about that stuff!

The wood really should be connected to wood!  It is a framework that supports the skin, not the other way round, so the ends of the wood should be joined to good solid wood!

Hope this helps,

Our local boatyard repairs the big sea going lifeboats that are used in the north sea at the oil platforms.

When they stick wood to glassfibre they use Sikaflex but they also paint both surfaces first with Sikaflex Primer.

You can use a twin pack Polyurethane such as Bison 2K, TradePUR LTM8, or a single pack version such as TradePUR LTM4.

There are elastomeric versions which basically means that they have a more flexible bond.

Polyurethanes will have names such as Sikaflex, Tigerseal, Tradeseal FC40, or others with the name FC40 somewhere in it. These are usually in tin cartridges. You can also use MS Polymers such as Geobond, Soudal Fix-all, or Tradeseal MS. Dont use the harder versions as they can set up stress cracking in plastics.

Don't use contact adhesives, or no more nails type materials.