Paper Weights

[bigeasy1]

Ok,I'm easily amused by things that are not that interesting to others,so I figured that,what the heck,why not bore the folks on CSC with some trivial useless info.
Anyway,I was cleaning out the garage and came across these cores from my Transom recore,and the core from the bottom of the hull where I put a water pickup to the seacock.

The transom plug is from the hole where the electrical,throttle,and shift cables run to the kicker cable,and the small plug was cut in the hull bottom on the outside step of the hull bottom for a water pickup.

When I did the transom,I only could see the layers at the top and at the I/O cutout.,so it was nice to find these. this gives me the opportunity to see how it actually looks inside the new transom.

The pictures are upside down.The outer hull surfaces are at the top.

On the small plug,the dark layer is the original glass on the hull bottom(about 3/8" thick).the middle layer is a few layers of glass that i had laid up when tieing in the stringer,and the yellowish light colored band(3/8")is a bunch of layers of 1708 that I laid up to mount the seacock on instead of wood.

On the big transom plug the original outer skin is the top layer(about 3/16'')the next is a layer of 1708,and the gray(tinted epoxy) wider band is the thickened epoxy mix that I used to bed the plywood into the core,it's a little more than 3/16" thick but it looks thicker in the pic.
Next is the two layers of 3/4 marine fir with the band of light epoxy used to glue the sheets together,and finally is the new glass inner skin,made up of a few layers of 1708

BTW the transom core sample is 2-1/8" thick(high) and the hull core sample is just about 1" thick