Thread: spyderlok mounting help

Originally Posted by captdave

Aluminum, no carpet. Seaarkboat with pretty thick aluminum.

The reason I asked about carpet is because I was amazed at how much mine compressed when installing the brackets. My deck is aluminum as well and I have had my Spiderlocks mounted for about 6 weeks and have yet to take them off. No loose screws here. Your pilot holes may be too large as G suggested. You could go up a size in screws and that would eliminate that as a possibility. I don't know if the screws that come with them are #10's or #12's. They make a drywall anchor called a butterfly toggle bolt. Those would work but you'd have to cut all 4 screw holes out large enough to get them threw the deck.

It's try larger diameter screws first. Get Stainless steel screws. One word of caution... I use stainless steel screws pretty often and the heads are very easy to strip out. If you could find some screws that have a square head or allen head, it would be much easier to thread them into the holes you have now without redrilling the hole.

Not sure if you want to go to this trouble but this is how I mounted mine.

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Thanks for all the replies fellas...really appreciate all the help and input!


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