Originally Posted by
Cane Pole
Can you apply this stuff without turning the boat over for solder flow? I got a ribar hole in my Jon (someone using ribar for stake bed) and I keep it patched with jb weld. Too much to turn Jon over to work on the bottom.
It depends on the hole size, Tom. If you can get enough of the original material to mesh together to form a crack, yeah.....it'll flow on through and bond. If not you'll have to use a piece of filler to fill the void. Dude, at the boat show once, was demonstrating this stuff by poking holes in the bottom of coke cans with what looked like a pointed oversize ice pick. Put the heat on it for a few seconds, layed the rod around the hole till it melted.......filled that hole up........then took the pointed tool and tryed to drive though the weld.....and couldn't phase it......ended up crushing the can trying tear the repair up. He sold me (and many others) a bag of it that day. I call it a po man's heli-arc......
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