Brent":14luelvz said:
Contact Armstrong for their comments
There are other bracket Mfg'rs besides Armstrong, with better designs, more customization, and better pricing to boot! However, either them or Parker should be able to tell you "where to position the OB bracket" and that is 99% of the engineering!
Megabyte":14luelvz said:
We have had members here who have closed the notch, and added a bracket.
One of them was a 2120 if I remember correctly.
Here's one I helped on, a 22' Statros CC we converted from a cut-out transom to full transom with bracket.
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BEFORE ...
TODAY!
Megabyte":14luelvz said:
... and it didn't look to be all that difficult.
Not expensive either
! IIRC we did the entire job for < $2K - wood, glass, sundries, and bracket to boot! We did it in his driveway, covering the stern with a 10x10' pop-up shelter and tarps. Ol' Rube goldberg DIY at its finest!
The BIGGEST issue is proper placement of the bracket onto the hull. We got lucky with the Stratos as they used to make such a version and my friend found a set of the orginal plans on-line.
Other LESSON LEARNED ... when mixing larger batches of epoxy resin, do NOT use a tub, buy disposable aluminum foil shallow pans, the larger in size the better. Epoxy cooks off by a thermal reaction, but if you were to spread it out in a 12" wide by 18" long pan with only 1" deep epoxy ... it would not cookoff. But if you poured that same amount of epoxy into a 6" or 8" round tub and it filled it up 4" or more ...
it will heat up and almost start a fire and harden to unusable in minutes ... ... if you get my drift of how we found THAT out, haha!
Note he also removed all of the graphics and bottom paint. I am soooooooooooooo glad I was not (ahem) available on those weekends he removed the bottom paint by solvents and sanding, hehe!
