My bailer leaks appallingly, so I thought I'd replace the gasket (the boat is a 2nd hand old nelo 510 , light use before I bought it).
Carefully watched a youtube video of someone replacing a gasket, seems fairly simple.
Ordered some 3mm neoprene.
Start on job.
Hmm. First complication. The video showed someone removing 6 large screws. My bailer has 6 large and 6 tiny.
Remove 6 large as they did in video. Bailer won't come out. Apply a bit more force; the whole thing pops out and it is no obvious that the 6 large were holding in the bailer bracket. Oops.
Remove the 6 small screws (they are tiny). Now the bailer comes apart and only 50% of the original gasket is present, no wonder it was leaking.
Cut the neoprene to fit.
Bailer won't close.
Trim and trim the new gasket, then it dawns on me that the 'neoprene' that I've bought is an incompressible slab, not the squishy wetsuit stuff. (slow on the uptake here).
Go and have a cup of tea.
Remember that I have some old wetsuit shoes that are falling apart. Cut one up to make gasket.
Everything goes back together easily.
I have an open tube of construction sealant, so use this to seal the bailer bracket back in place.
