My Montauk 150 manual is very helpful and shows the size, type, and general location of all the glassed-in reinforcement pads. But the location is not very specific.
A Whaler Customer Service Representative suggested using a stud finder to locate the pads I'm interested in. So I tried that. My problem is that I can't get signals to repeat reliably enough for me to be sure I've properly located a pad. And some pads seem to be in places the diagram in the manual suggests there is no pad.
Is there a technique I'm missing?
2016 150 MONTAUK: Locating Glassed-in Reinforcements
2016 150 MONTAUK: Locating Glassed-in Reinforcements
Bob
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Bob Rockefeller
Midway, GA
2016 Montauk 150
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Bob Rockefeller
Midway, GA
2016 Montauk 150
Re: 2016 150 MONTAUK: Locating Glassed-in Reinforcements
I believe you are looking for embedded material in the hull, as shown in this diagram from the 2016 150 MONTAUK owner's manual:
You can deduce the approximate location of the embedded material from the drawing, which appears to have been made to scale.
Regarding use of a stud-finder to locate the embedded material: that sounds like an excellent method. To test the sensitivity of the device you are using which apparently has failed to locate any material, perform a test:
--place a small block of wood of size and thickness similar to the embedded material in the boat behind a thin plastic material such as a polyethylene sheet;
--use your particular stud-finder and try to detect the location of the wood behind the plastic sheet;
--if your particular stud-finder fails to detect the wood, then it probably won't be useful in finding the wood embedded in the boat hull;
--try a different stud-finder, perhaps one with more sensitivity (or a fresh battery).
Another method to locate embedded material is to tap the hull with a plastic hammer, listening for a change in the report (sound) of the tap. Usually there will be a noticeable change in the sound produced by tapping when you are tapping on a reinforced area. However, I would expect the stud-finder method would be more precise.
- Fig. 1. 2016 150 Montauk hull reinforcement location diagram from owner's manual
- 150MONTAUK_ReinforcementLocations.png (41.37 KiB) Viewed 1786 times
You can deduce the approximate location of the embedded material from the drawing, which appears to have been made to scale.
Regarding use of a stud-finder to locate the embedded material: that sounds like an excellent method. To test the sensitivity of the device you are using which apparently has failed to locate any material, perform a test:
--place a small block of wood of size and thickness similar to the embedded material in the boat behind a thin plastic material such as a polyethylene sheet;
--use your particular stud-finder and try to detect the location of the wood behind the plastic sheet;
--if your particular stud-finder fails to detect the wood, then it probably won't be useful in finding the wood embedded in the boat hull;
--try a different stud-finder, perhaps one with more sensitivity (or a fresh battery).
Another method to locate embedded material is to tap the hull with a plastic hammer, listening for a change in the report (sound) of the tap. Usually there will be a noticeable change in the sound produced by tapping when you are tapping on a reinforced area. However, I would expect the stud-finder method would be more precise.