Avon R250 fender replacement?

[xeitosaphil]

I have had several parts of my R250 outside fendering coming adrift from the dinghy. Aparent when folding it. I decided to remove nearly all of it and re glue it. Trying to remove the glue left behind, is worse than removing antifouling!! Tried using heat with no success, so used several very small amounts of brush applied Toluene solvent. ( need to be very very careful as it desolves the seams if applied too liberally). A carbide scraper very gently to get the thick glue off, (also care needed not to punture tubes) and 60 grit allumimium oxide sand paper to remove whats left. Could only do 100mm at a time before solvent evaporated. Dinghy was blown up so solvent wouldn't lay on surface.

When purchasing the adhesive they said because the fendering had yellow on it, it was PVC ? If PVC, I needed to also buy PVC adhesive prior to coating with hypalon glue, to use it as a primer. I'm not completely convinced it is PVC as it feels like rubber and is heavy when coiled up. The inserts might be PVC but the whole of the outside fendering against the tube feels like rubber to me?

Can anybody tell me with any certainty what the fendering around the outside of an avon R250 is made of please, rubber or PVC ?

The dinghy is grey hypalon, with a fender that is grey but with 2 yellow strip inserts in the middle of the outside moulding.

With taking so much effort and time into the prep for this repair, I just don't want to balls it up.


Thanks for any replies, and hope the info in regards to glue removal is useful to anyone who is contemplating glue removal from hypalon?


Sorry for the long post


Cheers Philip

 

[Boathook]

I always thought that the fendering was Hypalon, especially the bit you stick down.

 

[xeitosaphil]

More photos, also need to do a tube leak.

 

[reallycoliholic]

Avon was bought out by Zodiac in 22 and they stopped selling the Avon brand, now it's all Zodiac. Look on their website and they give contact details.
Contact the Zodiac Milpro company, rapid response guaranteed

 

[xeitosaphil]

I always thought that the fendering was Hypalon, especially the bit you stick down.

My thoughts as well...... until this spanner in the works.

 

[xeitosaphil]

Avon was bought out by Zodiac in 22 and they stopped selling the Avon brand, now it's all Zodiac. Look on their website and they give contact details.
Contact the Zodiac Milpro company, rapid response guaranteed

Thanks for the link, I have contacted them and told them the situation.
Hopefully they won't think the query is not worth a reply, as its such a big company?

 

[Ribtecer]

If you get an answer, I'd be very interested to hear what they have to say.

 

[xeitosaphil]

If you get an answer, I'd be very interested to hear what they have to say.

Unfortunately they never replied to my email, so obviously are not willing to get into post sale enquires, advise or solututions once their dinghy's are sold, which is a shame.

 

[xeitosaphil]

Unfortunately they never replied to my email, so obviously are not willing to get into post sale enquires, advise or solututions once their dinghy's are sold, which is a shame.

Update on dinghy fendering using both pvc and hypalon adhesive.
I made sure all the specific bonding conditions were met in the adhesive instructions, also what I researched online. There is an absolute need to remove all the old glue from the tubes, right back to the clear grey hypalon, otherwise the new glue won't bond to them.

Temprature between 18 - 25°C. Humidity between 50 - 70%max. (not that easy to achieve outside in our weather)

I also left the dinghy inflated for 7 days after initial gluing to achieve the max bond strength.

Managed to fold/roll dinghy with no issues with fendering coming loose, so pleased with results.

Hope this thread is maybe of use to some others?
Photo of results.

 

[nevis768]

Useful thread thanks. I used wire wool and petrol as a solvent to get old glue off, worked ok.