[spareparts]

i spoke with Jim Porta( the guy who sells the porta bracket) several years ago( 12 ?). He had been doing the same thing using floor sweepings, cabosil, saw dust, gound glass fibers and what ever else he could find laying around, for many years before seacast came out. He had good luck repairing transoms this way, he showed me a pic of an offshore racer that he replaced the transom using this method, it had twin, 2.4 Bridge Port Mercs, hanging on porta brackets, bolted to the repaired transom, with no probelms. Jim had cautioned me about using too much resin and not enough filler, it would become brittle and crack, he had his own recipe of mix.