How do you affix things to the liners down below???

[Mork]

I have looked in awe at some of the mods on these and other pages and have decided that i will try out some of them. BUT!!

What is the best way to affix or attach plate holders or anything to the liners inside. I see many mods on the galley but none explain how they actually stuck or screwed the items in place.

So come on guys how do you do it???

[Mark Prouty]

Here is what I did.

http://macgregorsailors.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=3234

[Terry]

If you have the with the carpeted walls velcro works well. If you have a company called IKEA they also have many gadgets that can hang/hook from the underside of the upper liner where the back cushions hang from. The mirror is plastic attached to wood and can be drilled/screwed into. Double sided tape also works for lighter objects. I have yet to be brave enough to drill into the fiberglass.

Edit: Suction cups work too!

[kmclemore]

The 3M sitck-on tapes work well.. and they come attached to hooks and such of all sorts. See here: http://www.3m.com/us/home_leisure/command/

[Moe]

With the exception of the fire extinguishers and waterproof TP holder, which were permanently fastened, everything else is suction cups, and they work pretty well. Every now and then one comes loose, but it hasn't been bothersome enough for me to use Scott's recommended dielectric grease to help them stick.

[ALX357]

....i have drilled into the liner as many times as i need, and almost anywhere i want.... if it pushes in with a bit of give, it is not against the hull, and there is some space behind it for a screw point. If near one of the access holes, or light fixtures, or fuse panel, you can use bolts with nuts, but just screws alone hold well enough, if they are short enough and thick enough to grab the thin fiberglass. I first drill a small pilot hole, and gently so i avoid the "push-thru" to the hull, and then probe the space behind with the drill bit out of the drill, to see the max reasonable length screw usable. Then drill the hole to the needed size depending on the screw diameter, just a bit smaller than the screw shaft not including the threads, (a screw gauge helps here.) Then use a larger drill bit to wear away a bit of the gel-coat around the hole so the screw does not chip out a piece of gel-coat around the hole, and then use 3M 5200 adhesive in the screw hole, on the threads, and on the fixture of item you are fastening to the liner, to add a bit of extra bond and keep the screw from vibrating loose or backing out. The little holes can someday be filled with putty, 5200, or resin and gelcoat if you are concerned about them, or even drilled to the standard plug size and plugged like the others in the headliner, and besides, they are no real problem. The boat can't be kept looking new forever, and will better serve you if it is equipped the way you want, than by being bare just to look unmodified. The stock fixtures are already put in holes in the liner, and among all those plugs where the factory had to access the bolts to fasten deck fixtures, what's a few more going to hurt. It's your boat, not to be feared.

One of my future mods will be to install snaps along the upper edge of the lower liner, and fit thin carpeting to that flat lower band around the cabin, which can be removed for cleaning, access, or decor change if/when needed. Like the M interior, but easily removable and renewable.
....more holes, but filled with what i want.

[mrbill]

suction cups, With SuperGlue.

and mount in sheer load.

that and some eyes, but you have to know where you have room.



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[ronacarme]

The X upper liner has a lower lip that is bent L-like toward the upper portion of the lower liner, a few inches below the top edge of the latter. Insert upward into the gap therebetween a plate with an upper edge lip overlying and thus trapped above the upper liner's lip, or the knotted upper end of a piece of 1/8 to 1/4 inch line similarly overlying and trapped.

Such a plate above our dinette table carries a gooseneck chartlight, and is formed by a piece of 1/4 inch masonite with a piece of 3/8x3/16 screen molding glued along its top edge.

The inward lipped back wall of a length of plastic eavestrough acts as such a plate , to mount one length of trough over our galley and another over our port vberth, as shelves.

This approach allows removable, nonscarring, positive mounting of a variety of objects, tho obviously only in sufficient proximity to that gap.

[Mork]

Cheers guys! I'll set to and let you know how I get on.