ThorSen
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- Aug 17, 2017
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- Boat Info
- 2018 SPX 190 OUTBOARD 150
- Engines
- 150 4-stroke Mercury outboard
Happy & Meaningful Labor Day (a wee early) to all!
2018 SPX 190 - talk about, “a grain of sand in the eye of an elephant!”
Q - CAN ANY ADVISE THE BEST ADHESIVE PRODUCT TO USE A “Pin Prick” AMOUNT OF, TO RE-ATTACH A SMALL PORTION OF A FACTORY EMBLEM TO OUR HULL?
Background: Wiping the hull down after a wonderful weekend of delighting family and kids on the lake, I caught an edge of one of the numeral badges on the back of our boat with a microfiber towel and bent / cracked one of the “legs” of a letter “X” … Arghhhhhhhh! What a way to end an otherwise perfect weekend , sheesh !
Anyhoo, I tried pressing the “leg” back onto the black adhesive the factory obviously uses but, the plastic “leg” just pops back up and away from flush flat like the remainder of the emblem. Photos attached.
Complicating things a bit, I am also trying to figure out what the black stuff is the factory uses to attach these type emblem letters to the hulls as that will tell me what I’m trying to affix the backside of the plastic to (which like has a residue of that black factory stuff anyway).
Adding to my challenge is the fact I can only move the bent “leg” about a 1/64” away from the surface so, I imagine I’m going to wind up using a toothpick or dental pick to apply a small “dot” of the right type of adhesive to the backside of the “leg”
I am sorta just sick over this as this badging is EXTREMELY PROMINENT as soon as one hits our dock … aye yi yi, what’ve I done?!
2018 SPX 190 - talk about, “a grain of sand in the eye of an elephant!”
Q - CAN ANY ADVISE THE BEST ADHESIVE PRODUCT TO USE A “Pin Prick” AMOUNT OF, TO RE-ATTACH A SMALL PORTION OF A FACTORY EMBLEM TO OUR HULL?
Background: Wiping the hull down after a wonderful weekend of delighting family and kids on the lake, I caught an edge of one of the numeral badges on the back of our boat with a microfiber towel and bent / cracked one of the “legs” of a letter “X” … Arghhhhhhhh! What a way to end an otherwise perfect weekend , sheesh !
Anyhoo, I tried pressing the “leg” back onto the black adhesive the factory obviously uses but, the plastic “leg” just pops back up and away from flush flat like the remainder of the emblem. Photos attached.
Complicating things a bit, I am also trying to figure out what the black stuff is the factory uses to attach these type emblem letters to the hulls as that will tell me what I’m trying to affix the backside of the plastic to (which like has a residue of that black factory stuff anyway).
Adding to my challenge is the fact I can only move the bent “leg” about a 1/64” away from the surface so, I imagine I’m going to wind up using a toothpick or dental pick to apply a small “dot” of the right type of adhesive to the backside of the “leg”
I am sorta just sick over this as this badging is EXTREMELY PROMINENT as soon as one hits our dock … aye yi yi, what’ve I done?!
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) and Chip S - much appreciated and I will see if we have any 5200 or double-sided tape …
