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dave andersen
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Initially Posted - 05/18/2009 :  09:09:43  Show Profile
Just bought a nice 86 C-25 in edmonds Wa and brought it
to my home port on Whidbey Island yesterday.
There is a chunk broken off the teak vertical
piece that holds the campanion way boards. I have the
original broken off piece.

Question: Can broken teak be repaired? what would be the
best way to mend the damage?

This is my second C-25 after 12 years on my last in Ventura Keys;
the best little pocket cruiser around, IMHO
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Happy D
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Response Posted - 05/18/2009 :  09:28:44  Show Profile
I clean the cracks with acetone. Wait several minutes for the acetone to evaporate. Like 60 minutes. The acetone will remove the natural oils that will prevent a good glue bond. DO NOT get acetone on your skin!
Paint the crack surfaces with neat epoxy and let it soak in. 10 minutes. Repeat as required to ensure the thin epoxy is no longer saturating the surface.
Thicken the left over epoxy with fumed silica (Aerosil or Cabosil)until the epoxy is like mayonnaise.
Glue it with the thickened epoxy and clamp it just tight enough to hold it in place.
If you are careful, the crack should be near invisible.
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delliottg
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Response Posted - 05/18/2009 :  09:28:48  Show Profile  Visit delliottg's Homepage
Dave,
If the break is fairly clean, you can probably epoxy it back together. Teak is fairly oily, so you'll need to clean it with acetone just prior to bonding, and by "just prior to", I mean minutes before. Use sufficient clamps to keep the repair held together, but don't over clamp it, you don't want to end up with a dry joint by squeezing all the glue out. If you've got some gaps when you try to put it back together, you'll want to make a thicker epoxy with some sort of additive so it'll fill the gaps. I use West System epoxy for most of my repairs, and in this case I'd used their 404 filler if necessary, but there are many other epoxies out there that'll work just as well. Epoxy won't stick to things like plastic & wax paper so if you work on a trash bag or sheet of wax paper you can control the mess. If you're going to do the repair in place, you can tape wax paper to the exposed fiberglass to keep the epoxy off of it.

Good luck with the repair & let us know how it goes.

We're on Puget Sound as well BTW, our marina is in the south end of Elliott Bay on Harbor Island.
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dave andersen
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Response Posted - 05/18/2009 :  09:38:09  Show Profile
Amazing! my solution within 10 minutes. Is this the best
forum in the sailing world or what?

Many thanks to Happy D and David.
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Response Posted - 05/18/2009 :  10:39:10  Show Profile
gorilla glue? good stuff Maynard.
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