No wonder it tore out.
You could oversize the holes, marine tex in some nuts and then screw into the nuts. I would also use something like 4200 as more of an adhesive to help.
But I would probably do a completely different, more involved and sturdier repair for a pad eye...you never know what it might be needed for in a pinch.
Forget all the backing plate/nut nonsense unless you really foresee putting a high load on it in the future or you can get to the underside easily.
Just drill out the holes oversize, fill the hole with epoxy deing carefully to avoid leaving any voids, drill & tap the hole and then bed the pad eye with 4200 or 5200. You could drill out the holes in the pad eye and go up a size in screws if you want.
What other use does it have anyway?
IF you can borrow a HD rivet puller I can send you SS structural rivets that will work as well as anything else.
Hey gang,
Had a bit of a mishap yesterday and tore this bracket off.
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What is the best way to reseat and repair this? There is some gel coat damage as can be seen here.
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I was thinking about filling it in with MarineTex, sanding smooth, drilling new holes and reattaching. What say you?
Thanks
I agree FF. I was thinking it leant itself to straightening the slightly bent eye base, then a couple of decent sized pop-rivets, and Bob's y'uncle
Incidentally, I think there is backing plate, because those are small threaded bolts, not screws. They are blunt ended, not self-tapping, thread too fine, so unlikely just screwed into the fibreglass for mine...but if they were just screwed in, that was a weird type of screw to use. However, if into a backing plate, then there was little purchase for it to pull out like that.