I am getting a new aluminum fuel tank installed on 28 Bertram thanks to the Ethanol gas and insurance and the guys building the tank are coating the outside. I have 2 Stainless Steel saddle tanks that I would like to coat but the shop didn't know of anything to coat them in. Does anybody have any idea what I can put on these stainless tank to protect them? I am also repainting my decks while I have the deck out and I have hatches in the floor that lift out. The hatches had these bolt like handles to pick the hatches up and they weren't sealed so the wood on the underside has some rotting. I removed all the wood and I am going to re-glass the undersided but there are some stress cracks on the topside of the hatches. The hatches have a diamond texture on them. I was going to grind the stress cracks and seal them but how do I fix the cracks and keep the diamond pattern? What would be the best product to fix the cracks? Any help would be appreciate.
Curt
Hi Curt,
Can you repair the stress cracks from the bottom side of the hatches. Stiffen them up with some ribs glassed in & some extra glass mat around the edges? Then all you should need to do to the topsides is apply a light coat of flowcoat. That will seal/hide the cracks but leave the diamonds intact.
On the hatches I have completely removed the wood and glass backing and I am going to redo this with all new stuff. This should add the stiffness it was missing that caused it to crack. I was looking at Gel coat paste to try. Remember this boat is over 30 yrs old so some of its issues are that Gelcoat is beat up and just needs some covering. I am was planning on filling in all scratches and cracks with this gel coat paste and then repainting the entire boat.
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