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Re: Footbrace attachment
By:Dave Houser
Date: 8/9/2001, 3:36 pm
In Response To: Footbrace attachment (Brion - Seattle)

Everbody seems to have a spin on the same concpt. Here's mine:

I used a 2 1/8-inch diameter hole saw (from installing door locksets on my house) to make four 1/8-inch thick 2-inch diameter disks with a 1/4-inch hole in the center. I then flattened the barbs on the tee-nuts and pushed them through the holes in the disks and epoxied them to the disk. The stem of the tee-nut did protrude through the disk so I counterbored the bolt holes in the Keeper rails just enough to accept the protrusion. After the epoxy cured, I screwed the tee-nutted disks to the Keeper rails and filled the bottom of the threads of the tee-nut with beeswax (from a toilet seal also left over from remodeling) to the bottom of the bolt using a tooth pick. Beeswax is a great bond breaker so I was careful to only get it only in the threaded hole. After buttering the bottom of the disks with thickened epoxy I taped the rails into position on the inside of the hull. The epoxy was thickened enough to fill the gap created by the curve of the hull. It worked great, no problems to date.

Messages In This Thread

Footbrace attachment
Brion - Seattle -- 8/8/2001, 1:37 pm
Re: Footbrace attachment
LeeG -- 8/15/2001, 2:19 am
Re: Footbrace attachment
Dave Houser -- 8/9/2001, 3:36 pm
Re: Footbrace questions
Chris Menard -- 8/9/2001, 8:06 am
Re: Footbrace questions
Dave S. -- 8/15/2001, 1:55 am
Check out Vaclav's mounting technique
Les Nightingill -- 8/9/2001, 9:40 am
Re: Footbrace attachment option b
Pete Notman -- 8/8/2001, 6:04 pm
Re: Footbrace attachment
Chip Sandresky -- 8/8/2001, 3:06 pm
Re: Footbrace attachment
Scott Fitzgerrell -- 8/9/2001, 1:34 am
check out newfound woodworks
tom preska -- 8/8/2001, 5:22 pm
Re: Footbrace attachment
Jim Kozel -- 8/8/2001, 2:14 pm
Re: Footbrace attachment
Brion - Seattle -- 8/8/2001, 2:41 pm