[Miles Offshore]

Hey guys, I pulled the duck tape off today and drilled the holes. It is kind of hard to determine what angle to use on the drill bit. I drilled the hole out with a 1" paddle wheel bit after running a smaller pilot hole on the angle I thought would best come out where it was supposed to. [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] The pilot drill hole was not long enough to go all the way through but it was enough to go for it. I did all the drilling from the outside. Went pretty good. Test fitted the expandable plugs from the inside and they worked fine except I had to expand them a little more than previously so maybe I would have been better off with a 15/16" bit or so. I think it is going to work great. Where the west expanded on the inside of the boat I am going to have to take a dremal tool to remove some of the epoxy that expanded in the well but it doesn't appear to be to bad a job, and its just for cosmetic reasons only. I am going to take a tad bit of west now and lightly coat the inside of the hole with my finger, just for shi*S and giggles. I used a mirror and flashlight to inspect the holes (this sounds badI know) and they appear to be fine. I put right much of the filler stuff into the west when I mixed it and it seems to have caused some air bubbles so I would not use them again. Anyways sorry for the long post, I think this is going to be the ticket with no brass tubes, flare tools, 5200, etc. I took a couple of pictures today and I will put them up soon. It will be ahwile before I piut up the completed project but since I finally used up this roll of film you guys can finally see my redone console!!!~ craig

[ April 16, 2003, 07:15 PM: Message edited by: Miles Offshore ]