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Took a drive over to the plasteak plant near Akron today. I've been thinking about replacing the hatch slides with a combo handrail made from plasteak. The folks there were very nice and gave me a bunch of scraps to practice on! I'll post pics of the end result. I started with removing the wood rail, enlarged the screw holes and filled them up with epoxy. The epoxy really soaked in, where it went , who knows! I'll be imbedding threaded inserts and switching to machine screws in lieu of wood screws..that should end any water infiltration.
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Sounds like a good plan. :idea: Looking forward to the photos... please include measurements and dimensions for those of us mathematically deprived. Oh... and don't think for one minute that I would steal you idea... I'm just curious. :wink:

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And while Terrance is being curious, I don't mind plagerizing. :wink:
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Threaded inserts!

Great idea... Thanks!

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Attached are some photos that I got from plasteak, this is some work done by one of their customers.

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Post by John Stahl »

I have been considering using Nuteak for the cockpit in my boat.
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