Piriapolis - Deep Locker Seals
31/10/11 00:47 Filed in: Uruguay
For some time now I have been wanting to tackle the deep locker lid seals. The lids themselves comprise a GRP frame with an inner top screwed in place. This inner top has been roughly sealed with gelcoat. The end result is a poorly finished agricultural bodge.
Poorly applied gelcoat breaking up in places. This needs to be made good with epoxy filler.
Neoprene seals are in pretty good knick but the the original glue and touchup glue has suffered not coped well with heat over the years.
Poor quality glue has allowed the seals to move and scrunch up in places.
To seal properly the neoprene needs to be hard against the lid edges.
The job entails removing all seals, cleaning them up, removing all residual glue from the lid and re-gluing the seals in place. A very slow and fiddly process slowed further by my lack of good thinners to remove the glue.
Poorly applied gelcoat breaking up in places. This needs to be made good with epoxy filler.
Neoprene seals are in pretty good knick but the the original glue and touchup glue has suffered not coped well with heat over the years.
Poor quality glue has allowed the seals to move and scrunch up in places.
To seal properly the neoprene needs to be hard against the lid edges.
The job entails removing all seals, cleaning them up, removing all residual glue from the lid and re-gluing the seals in place. A very slow and fiddly process slowed further by my lack of good thinners to remove the glue.