Repairing a jet sled

[adkRoy]

Our Jet sled has seen quite a few years of service and has developed a 1inch by 4 inch hole in the bottom by the back. Short of using duct tape, has anyone else had to repair a hole like this? What would you recommend? Any tips will be appreciated.
Thank you,
Roy

[camo_fish]

 here ya go.

http://www.iceshanty.com/ice_fishing/index.php?topic=37407.msg384582#msg384582

can't do anything for your hole but this will get the sled up off the ice. 

[adkRoy]

Thank You.

[LoneWolf]

If you want to repair the hole before doing Beans suggestion you can do it easily with plastic edging and hot glue. Cut a piece of black plastic edging slightly larger than the hole and hot glue it from the inside ... use the hot glue stick for plastic. Cut a piece of edging to fit the hole from the outside .. if it's the same thickness. Now from the outside hot glue the piece in place and fill any gaps. I did this on a trap base years ago and it lasted over a season.

[Bailbuster]

I repaired mine with a 2 part epoxy, It has lasted 2 winters so far and I just looked at it and it is still solid,just get one made for abs or plastic.BB

[PIKEGUY]

Throw it away and buy a new one. You must be rich...you ARE a teacher. ROFLMAO 

[icy mike]

add some teflon runners on the bottom and patch the hole with plastic sheeting, sealant, and rivets/machine screws with large washers.

[adkRoy]

Throw it away and buy a new one. You must be rich...you ARE a teacher. ROFLMAO 

I would just toss the sucker and get a new one because they're pretty cheap to begin with.  Just be very careful pulling it across blacktop and rocks and they'll last a long time.  If you've got a "few" years out of it you did well. 

I'd rather spend a few dollars repairing it than buying a new one. I have an up coming wedding next summer.

[perchnut]

Wedding?  Perfect, just take the money you would have spent for a gift, buy a new sled, put a screen over the hole in the old one, fill it with dirt, and give the lucky couple their new 'planter'!!   

[PIKEGUY]

Wedding?  Perfect, just take the money you would have spent for a gift, buy a new sled, put a screen over the hole in the old one, fill it with dirt, and give the lucky couple their new 'planter'!!   

He is the "lucky" couple 

[adkRoy]

He is the "lucky" couple 

Sorry honey, I couldn't buy you that gold wedding band but here's the new jetsled I bought.  I don't think that would go over well.  But then again she does like to ice fish

[BlindSquirrel]

An upcoming wedding?  Buy a new one now, in fact buy everything you ever wanted now.  It may be a while before you get another chance.

[perchnut]

...yup, and hide it all away and slowly take things out...'oh this??  Ive had this for a while now....'

[icy mike]

A few strings of tin cans trailing behind a new Jet Sled would be the perfect touch as you head out to the honeymoon shanty !  What's traditional the saying:

Something old (your old ice fishing addiction)
Something new (your new Jet Slet)
Something borrowed (perhaps a two person snowmobile to pull the new Jet Sled)
Something blue (multi-colored jig assortment of course)

[adkRoy]

Keep the advice coming guys... I've been showing it to the future Mrs. adkRoy and she thinks it is hilarious. I told her up front that come fall I'm out in the woods (she supports my hunting but does not want to hunt herself) and that I'm on the ice in the winter. She tried icefishing and she loves it. She did tell me that I have to buy the wedding band before a new jetsled though.

[billybono]

junk it and buy a otter sled


   billybono

[eye hunter]

Keep the advice coming guys... I've been showing it to the future Mrs. adkRoy and she thinks it is hilarious. I told her up front that come fall I'm out in the woods (she supports my hunting but does not want to hunt herself) and that I'm on the ice in the winter. She tried icefishing and she loves it. She did tell me that I have to buy the wedding band before a new jetsled though.

Roy hurryup and marry her, then for your anniversary each year just before ice you can get each other anniversary gifts for ice fishin,