Screw size for swim platfrom bracket (2009) ??

[Duncan]

Does anyone know the (machine) screw size for the underside of the brackets for the swim platform? These are the notoriously missing stability screws that seem to fall out.

[Ewok]

I took my boat to Home Depot and they let me take a few screws out to the boat to try them out. I put them on my platform with locktite and they have been solid for 6 trips to the lake since I put them in at the beginning of the summer.

[Duncan]

Thanks! Good suggestion.

[JLG]

Take another one out under the VX and take it in as most box stores and hardware stores have a nut and bolt thread checker. I also thread locked all of mine on my previous 2 boats and never had an issue after that.

[Duncan]

Take another one out under the VX and take it in as most box stores and hardware stores have a nut and bolt thread checker. I also thread locked all of mine on my previous 2 boats and never had an issue after that.

With a 2009, I sadly have no VX. I had two screws and both are gone.

[JLG]

Sorry didn't mean to say VX, It took me forever to quit calling the fiberglass platform a teak after my first boat and now I keep calling the Convex VX a fiberglass platform! I see your dilemma now with not having any bolts to go from. If I had my 07 I'd pull one and check as I'm sure most those years run the same size. I would say that taking it by a parts store would be your best bet or a Fastenal as they will have a thread gauge. Thread lock them in when doing it!

[Duncan]

Prior thread with great info.

5/16" course thread suggested by Ewok for 2009 bracket.

5/16 -18 x 3/4" Stainless Steel bolts suggested by RT (but he had new unthreaded brackets).