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skimboarder · Posted: Aug 06, 2008 11:03 pm Post subject: hellllp

so tonight i started construction on my own NT rail. got everything, then i started attaching the trex to the wood. someone on here told me to drill straight down through the trex into the wood and it would be flush and slide fine.

here's the problem, it's not flush at all. if i slide this it probably won't stop me but it will shred my deck to pieces. what should i do? i've tried tightening them up, i was thinking about using a sander to sand them down but it probably won't work, do i just have to buy new wood and drill from the underside?

i need help because we need this rail tomorrow.

Gnarly Dancer 42 · 360 flip Joined: 21 May 2007 Posts: 5121 City: kalamazoo

use a drill bit that's larger than the wood screw head, and drill halfway through the trexx, then put the screw in.

skimboarder · Posted: Aug 07, 2008 12:07 am Post subject:

yeah now i know to countersink it, at the time i wasn't even thinking. but the problem is all the screws are in, most are stripped all to hell. i might not be able to salvage this job Mad

kraus6451 · Pop Shuvit Joined: 23 Aug 2008 Posts: 110

pull the stripped ones out with plyers and the holes they leave probly wont change anything

fastgreens · Kickflip Joined: 29 Dec 2007 Posts: 3563 City: baytown

or drill the heads off the screws and countersink new ones next to them Idea

slothboy420 · Frontside 180 Joined: 12 Mar 2006 Posts: 274 City: atco

u can use an easy out also u can find them at hardware stores to remove damaged screws it works great

skimboarder · Posted: Aug 27, 2008 8:32 pm Post subject:

thanks to everyones help. with a little patience we were able to back out almost all the screws, a few we had to knock the heads off. we ended up just buying a drill bit drilling down and countersinking them like that using the old holes as sort of guide holes.

first day we threw it in, TWRA pulls up, and i thought to myself this isn't acceptable getting our rail removed the first day it's in the water. but the dude was cool and said as long as we take it out everynight he doesn't care, because he "didn't want to pull another dead fisherman out who had hit it at full speed during the night." his exact words!

it's a fun ass rail! Smash

mr.foonis · Posted: Aug 27, 2008 8:55 pm Post subject:

we need action pics!

joel · Backside 180 Joined: 20 Apr 2008 Posts: 747 City: ORLANDO

skimboarder, action shots would be pretty rad.

slothboy420 · Frontside 180 Joined: 12 Mar 2006 Posts: 274 City: atco

lets c some shots and watch out for floating fisherman >--<0___,

skimboarder · Posted: Aug 28, 2008 9:30 pm Post subject:

i'd love to get some video and some good pictures but my camera is absolutely dead, i turn it on, the lens won't come out it beeps and goes back off. (if anyone knows what's up please tell!)

but i will get some cell phone pics tomorrow or this weekend Smash

LFArmada · Backside 180 Joined: 05 May 2008 Posts: 631 City: tucson

how long is it??

what size poles did u use?
I tried to use 3/4 and it was an epic fail for me.

skimboarder · Posted: Aug 28, 2008 10:42 pm Post subject:

i used 6 foot poles, i honestly can't remember what diameter, i'd have to check the flanges next time i'm out.

it's 12 foot, kinda short but all we could do this year.

T-Hawk · Posted: Feb 26, 2009 9:23 am Post subject:

When i made mine, the screws went pretty far into the trex, like a quarter inch below the surface of it. Try using a drill to tighten it more and press it into the trex.

skimboarder · Posted: Apr 22, 2009 2:23 am Post subject:

T-Hawk, that's what we did but we couldn't get it to tighten up and be flush with it.

by the way, RIP rail, first session we went out this year it was still up under some brush where we hid it for the winter on an island. went out last weekend and someone stole it.... Rolling Eyes