Rod Box repair...
 

So I'm in the middle of restoring all the teak and anything else I can get my hands on in the process, because why not, right?

Took out my rod boxes, whoa!! They're in terrible shape. Cracks and holes... can I patch these with anything? They seem to be plastic, am I correct? I think they're the original ones.

I took a pretty good look around, checked out some others posts that showed off new shiny ones, but I prefer the look of the original with the teak trim - so I'd like to restore or replace with other originals.

Looks like Marinetex is the way to go for rebuilding the corners n cracks. Anyone love it - or hate it??

I've found marine tex better for filling gouges, or screw holes. I would think some fiber glass cloth or mat on the parts of the boxes that fit inside the gunnels would do a decent job. Sand and re paint, then re install with the cleaned and oiled teak or varnished if you don't mind redoing it every year or so.

If you want to save yourself a whole lot of trouble, Flounder Pounder sells them new. Might be worth it depending on how flimsy they are. Also a few on here have built their own and have come out really nice.

mine were in pretty bad shape also. mostly cracks along the flange that screwed to the gunnells. i roughed up the backside with some 100 grit and laid down a 2 inch piece of fiberglass tape along the flange. after that set up, i used marine tex to fill in the exposed crackes on the front side.

the flange is so thin and the gunnell is also so i ran a piece of 1x2 pt pine around the inside of the opening in the cap. this gave the inserts some "meat" to hold to. works well, the boxes don't flex as much and has held up well.

If your not into mixed up batches of resin this stuff works great for small jobs.
However if you need a lot
of resin it's more cost effective to buy bulk and mix yourself.

http://www.jamestowndistributors.com...1+Epoxy+System


Little cheaper then West brand.

Thanks for the suggestions... I think I'm going to get the tape for the underside and use Marine Tex on the cracks, along with a sand n paint.

Does anyone have a favorite type of paint, best used for these rod holders?

I'm sure there's much better paint out there but I just used a rattle can of Krylon for plastic in white.

I hear ya man!!

Yea man, I took at the new ones, but not a fan for some reason. I did look through the posts with custom ones, very cool!!