Plasteak
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 4:31 pm
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.
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. 
