Somewhere in its history which is only two months with us, the bathtub in our '94 Damon Challenger earned a crack, about 6 inches long. A previous owner tried a dark gray-colored hardening agent of some kind on the crack in the beige tub. The hardening agent hardened, but the when someone stepped inside, it too cracked. Thinking it might be fiberglass, I used a fiberglass repair kit and it didn't take to the plastic. I'd appreciate any guidance on how to repair the crack. Thanks, Dave
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Dave and Missy Boliek
Little Bit and Roxeanne
1994 Damon Challenger
2007 Saturn Aura
We had a crack in a tub in our house and called a repair service we found listed in the Yellow pages. He did an excellent job and guaranteed the repair. There shouldn't be any difference in repairing a RV tub vs. a home tub. The tub is probably an acrylic material not fiberglass.
I have had good luck using repair kits for acrylic nails. Drill a small hole at each end of the crack to keep it from spreading first, than mix acrylic and apply. It sticks very well to RV plastic tubs, relatively clear too.
You might want to also look under the tub if you have access and see if there is any support under where the crack is showing up. Then correct the support issue with expanding foam or some other method before repairing, or you will just break it again when you step over that area. Then have a bathtub repair place do the repair, they are great at color matching. I did a small repair with Bondo to a small hole after spraying Expandable foam under the area to take out the flex, and then tried to match the color with spray touchup paint for cars that they sell at automotive stores but it was hard to match. Looks OK to me but the white color is just a little off.
Othertonka
2004 Southwind 32VS 8.1 Workhorse chassis
2002 CRV Toad
U. S. Gear Unified brake system
Retired Fire Captain, SFD
Go to the local RV parts place and see if they have a Syon kit.
Syon makes a number of repair kits for black and grey and fresh water tanks as well as kits to repair cracked RV showers and tubs.
There is one to repair fuel tanks as well. All of their kits really do work.
Follow the directions precisely.
Chances are good that the reason it cracked in the first place was poor or no support underneath. The only real way to fix that is to pull the old pan out, put in the proper supports and then in with the new. When I did mine, I pulled out the old..in pieces..put in the new supports and then had the shop install the new. There were plumbing issues I wasn't able to resolve.
There's not much point in trying to repair that crack until you know why it happened. You don't want more water getting under there and rotting the floor out.
Gary Haupt
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