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<blockquote data-quote="SilverFox" data-source="post: 2736327" data-attributes="member: 9102"><p>If you can sit it up on sawhorses you can fill it with water at home... easier to find the leak that way but you have to pay for the water. Just make sure you have the boat supported good since water is a LOT of weight. If you're gonna paint put a little food coloring in the water and it will help find it... just don't make a mess and make the wife kill you! If it has rivets this may be the only way to find a leak since the seam make it's hard to pin-point the exact location. </p><p></p><p>On a float test you want to make sure you have the boat loaded down to the max you're gonna carry. With only one person the boat may not be low enough in the water or have the weight in the right place to make it leak... aluminum will bend and some holes can almost seal theirself if the wieght is not in the right place and then you find it when you have the boat loaded.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SilverFox, post: 2736327, member: 9102"] If you can sit it up on sawhorses you can fill it with water at home... easier to find the leak that way but you have to pay for the water. Just make sure you have the boat supported good since water is a LOT of weight. If you're gonna paint put a little food coloring in the water and it will help find it... just don't make a mess and make the wife kill you! If it has rivets this may be the only way to find a leak since the seam make it's hard to pin-point the exact location. On a float test you want to make sure you have the boat loaded down to the max you're gonna carry. With only one person the boat may not be low enough in the water or have the weight in the right place to make it leak... aluminum will bend and some holes can almost seal theirself if the wieght is not in the right place and then you find it when you have the boat loaded. [/QUOTE]
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