DON'T DO THIS to your Kayak Trailer!

[Music] [Applause] [Music] all right guys bit of an update on the kayak trailer i had to take the wooden frame off see it right there because after i'd built it and posted the video i found out that aluminum and copper are reactive with each other and pressure treated wood has copper in it so you can see it's already started to uh corrode a little just from like three weeks on there so i really appreciate the guys that uh commented and notified me about the reaction there with the copper and the aluminum so what we're gonna do is i've got some water seal flex tape and we're going to put that down to act as a membrane along the rails here where the wood touches so i'm going to go research how we need to clean this aluminum before we do it and then uh we'll get started okay uh we've used dish soap to rub on it that didn't make much of a difference so i looked it up and you do a mixture of water and white vinegar and then you use some table salt as an abrasive it's cleaned it up quite a bit so we're gonna rinse that off real good make sure all the vinegar and salt's off of there and then we're gonna dry it completely and then we're gonna put on the water seal flex tape all right this is what we got to coat it with uh it should create a barrier that won't allow the copper to get through to the aluminum and we should be fine after that all right see i got it on the back too right now so two more and then we can start putting it back together all right i got it all taped up uh you can see each one's covered i hope you see it on the video uh just put little slits right here so the bolts will slide through and then on these edges here i put a little overlap piece so in case that when it rains or that wood seeps a little it doesn't sneak down into that crack of the aluminum there so i did that on all of them so we're gonna get the uh frame back on here get it bolted down and see how it works nice and easy all right okay start dropping bolts through see got it lined up and see how that protects it right there so i get it all bolted back down all right got everything back on see our little protections right like here are in place got a barrier now between the pressure treated wood and all the aluminum hopefully this will take care of the problem won't have to worry about that anymore and the next thing i got to do is carpet the pvc and either cap or smooth off the ends so this doesn't dig into the plastic on your kayak