Hello all, 1st post, so go easy.
I've just rediscovered boat modelling and intended to restart on a styrene hull I last touched 15 years ago.
I had fitted bow and stern thrusters at that time with epoxy (no idea what make) and now find it is 'rubber', I tore a load of it off by hand.
The BT is fitted and covered by deck now, so inaccessible other than to run glue through the frame cut out to encase it as is.
The ST is partly covered in still hard Milliput, as the 2 propshafts exit the hull very close above it, so no chance of getting it out without tearing the styrene hull.
I'm thinking tear off as much soft epoxy as possible, run thin cyano into both sides of the tunnels, inside the hull, to seal it watertight, then quality epoxy over the lot to encase them inside?
I think any effort to extract the tunnels and do it again will rip the styrene hull = scrap...
Any thoughts?
ta very