I've been chopping away at this for the past few weeks.
So far I have the outter skin removed and all of the old core removed. Getting the old core out of the edges and corners was def a pain in the ass, but I kept at it an got damn near 100% of it out.
Just got all my materials in the mail and next step is to cut the coosa to shape and get all my fiberglass "mise en place" ready. I plan on doing the lay up all in one whack.
I plan to follow this lay up starting from the inside:
Full piece entire shape of transom 1 1/2 oz mat.
3/4" thick coosa, cut into 4 pieces to fit inside transom
Full piece 1 1/2 oz mat
5/8" thick coosa cut into 4 pieces, at least 6" overlap from other coosa pieces.
Old skin on top of it all, clamped down really good.
I'm going to use combination of neat epoxy and thickened epoxy, depending on the layer. Prob thickened for the core and neat for the mat layers.
It's gonna be tough to get the core to fit absolutely snug and tight with the corners and edges of the transom, because of the original construction. There all types of bumps and what not preventing the new core from sliding all the way to the edge. So the plan is to fill the edges with thickened resin, possibly with loose pieces of pulled apart mat, prior to fitting the pieces of core in. There will be about 1/2" space along all the edges of this thickened resin concoction.
Does this sound good?
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