'80SkiN Platform screws stripped

[80Nautique]

Thanks in advance for your time. Have a 1980 Ski Nautique, and 2 screws holding the Teak Platform in are stripped out, I can pull them out by hand. To say the least, platform is not supported very well.

Could use some advice/wisdom in repairing, and thanks again!!....chris....

[raygunclan]

'80 Ski Nautique Platform screws stripped

if you're looking for advice on how to get the screws out, at home depot the sell a stripped screw getter outer, although i think they sell it under a different name. Yellow_Flash_Colorz: you attach it to your drill and drill it into the center of your screw and they come right out! pretty amazing, i must say! we had a cast iron sink attached to the wall of our bathroom with rusted out screws. i stripped those babies in under a minute and then had no clue how i was going to get them out! went to home depot and told them my sad story, they prescribed the apparatus (ok, its really a tough screw with reverse threads, but it sure does sound more professional calling it an apparatus than a stripped screw getter outer!) and i went home and, voila! out they came! on the bottom of the sink was stamped "july 28, 1926"!
so, to make a long story longer, they should work for you!
if that was even your question! Yellow_Flash_Colorz:
good luck!

[derby]

RE:

raygunclan your tool is an "easy out" or screw extractor.

80Nautique is the spinning screw in the platform or transom?

[raygunclan]

RE:

i was kind of thinking that i had the wrong name! but they did rename uranus to yer-uh-nus, so who knows! maybe the construction powers that be will rename the screw extractor the stripped screw getter outer!
maybe not. Yellow_Flash_Colorz:

[80Nautique]

Thanks for all your responses. Actually, what I meant to say was that the bolts that secure the platform to the back of the boat are not doing their job. The holes(in the back of the boat) that the bolts holding the platform go into, have become "too big" ; the lagbolts aren't able to get any more "bite" into the back of the boat anymore, and the platform isn't attached securely anymore.

Thanks Again Guys!!!!....chris......

[davidr]

You might need to through-bolt it, use some 3M 5200 (or 4200) to seal.

Consider this thread on one of the correctcraftfan.com forums which addresses securing platform brackets to the boat - http://www.correctcraftfan.com/forum...?TID=2186&PN=1