> I have a middle of the road paddle that has given good service for several > years. It had been in a warehouse for the last year or so. When I picked > it up the other day the blade was turning freely in the shaft. It appeared > that it had been held in with some sort of adhesive or double sided tape > that had dry rotted out. If anyone knows the correct way to repair this > problem I would be greatly appreciative. > > Bud Turner When the ferrules on my Bending Branches paddles came loose, I simply used epoxy to put them back on again. I used on the quick-dry two- part epoxy that I picked up at the local hardware store. I sanded the wood paddle shafts clean of the old "glue", and lightly sanded the inside of the ferrules as well. Then I put a couple of layers of masking tape on the shafts at the point where the ferrules ended (to prevent extra epoxy from dripping down onto the exposed shaft) marked the alignment for the ferrules on the tape and the ferrule (to help me align the ferrules correctly when they were glued down) and applied a coat of the mixed epoxy to the shaft and slipped the ferrules into place. The stuff dried in a few hours and the paddle served me well for another year before a managed to snap the shaft during an incautious re-entry. -- Darryl *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Mar 10 2008 - 06:58:01 PDT
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