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Replacement or repair of Stern Bench on 1988 Santego 30
- theorifice
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Replacement or repair of Stern Bench on 1988 Santego 30
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Is it even reasonable to find a replacement bench for this vintage? Any suggestions for repair/replace? Are there specialty marine furniture shops? I am in Chicago.
I'm reasonably handy and based on the damage, I think I could do the following for the structure of the bench:
* remove as much rotted wood on the arm mounting points
* add wood hardener (epoxy) to the remaining exposed wood in the arm
* mount a suitable size piece of marine plywood to replace the fixed with through dowels and additional epoxy
* drill horizontal holes in the mounting points
* add prong nuts
* seal up the added plywood (more hardener??)
* re-staple upholstery
It's more important to me that the structure of the bench is solid. The damaged upholstery could be patched over for now.
- theorifice
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