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| Author: | bcombs510 [ Wed Feb 01, 2017 8:24 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Uke repair |
Hello, I have a friends Uke that needs a repair, it looks like the neck bolt insert has come loose. I need to inspect more closely after taking the neck off. If the insert is loose and won't tighten for some reason, could I just epoxy it in place? My thought is the string forces are so much lower that it would work? If so, just remove the insert, cleanup the hole a bit, and epoxy into place? Appreciate any help. Brad Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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| Author: | david farmer [ Wed Feb 01, 2017 8:39 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Uke repair |
As long as it's high quality epoxy. Not 50/50 fast setting stuff. West or system three. Long setting times and low viscosity let it penetrate the surrounding wood. Should be bomber. I would make sure the bolt wasn't bottoming in the hole and jacking out the insert. Just my 2 cents. |
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| Author: | Kevin Mason [ Wed Feb 01, 2017 9:48 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Uke repair |
If I understand the kind of insert you have, I would remove the insert, drill out the hole larger than the original, glue in a piece of dowel made of hardwood, redrill the hole for the insert, and then epoxy the insert. |
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| Author: | bcombs510 [ Wed Feb 01, 2017 10:10 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Uke repair |
david farmer wrote: As long as it's high quality epoxy. Not 50/50 fast setting stuff. West or system three. Long setting times and low viscosity let it penetrate the surrounding wood. Should be bomber. I would make sure the bolt wasn't bottoming in the hole and jacking out the insert. Just my 2 cents. Something like this I assume? https://www.woodcraft.com/products/syst ... 1-1-2-pint I'll check the bolt as well, good point. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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| Author: | david farmer [ Wed Feb 01, 2017 11:26 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Uke repair |
Yep, that's the stuff. |
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| Author: | Quine [ Thu Feb 02, 2017 12:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Uke repair |
Should hold with epoxy. I hope you can get the neck bolt out with the insert spinning |
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| Author: | bcombs510 [ Tue Feb 07, 2017 10:20 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Uke repair |
To close the loop. I was able to get the bolt out. I cleaned out the hole a bit and epoxied that sucker into place. One tricky thing was some epoxy squeezed up into the end of the insert and I had the clean it out by screwing the bolt in, removing, clearing the threads and repeat until it wasn't picking up any more epoxy. Probably a slick way to avoid that but I wasn't aware of it.  Thanks for the help! Brad |
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