I must like punishing myself

[billythekid]

chuck thanks buddy, just trying to keep up with the master!


had sometime today and was kind of all over the map, filling, grinding , tabbing and fitting

I had a little problem with the livewell fitting in the console. the engine box I used tapered in to much. So I got fitted and made 2 cuts on the front to widen the box by about 1.5" inches. now it fits. So I grinded the edges down inside for some putty to get everything in a final position. I used some luan and sheetrock screws to get everything into position.

[billythekid]

alright been messing with the console and its been a a little of a headache. I goofed when I cut the console down so now I am adding an inch back to it and molding another top back on to it with the livewell lid recess built in.

I got the sides glassed back into the console and trimmed them up.

I decided to flip console over and get it secured to the table and gonna laminate from the inside. I cut some mdf and waxed it up and screwed it all the way around. I sealed it up all the way around with the hot glue gun to keep anything from moving.

last one is with the livewell dry fitted to make sure everything fits.

waiting on some more resin......

[billythekid]

back from florida and got some other stuff done.

I want to get this console put back together so I built 2 plugs for the console lid. one is 3/16" bigger all the way around. this is the one that gets put down in the mold to laminate over. The other is a template for the acrylic lid I will have made. I used the standard radius tool (WD40 can)

I got the plug for the hatch centered and nailed it down, once this was down I put some radius wax around the plug then on goes the mold release wax, PVA and a coat of Duratec.

tomorrow I will laminate it.

[billythekid]

here is a pic of the anchor locker, I also made the mold to make the anchor locker hatch.

also I got the rear access hatches cut in and the rest of engine shroud fitted.

[ocuyler]

Nice work, man!

[billythekid]

well after some laminating with some mat, mat,mat , 1708 it was time to bed the livewell.

I mixed up some potter putty put it in a caulk tube and squirted it around the parimeter of where it sitting I set the livewell and set 2 5 gallon buckets of water on it. I then tabbed it in with a layer of mat and 1708 to make sure it will never flex and separate from the console. I added a support between the livewell and front of the console to stiffen it up a little bit. I let it set over night and it was time to pop it off the table. to see what we had.


you can see the green edge around the outside of the front of the console, I put a big bead around the edge before the first layer of glass so I have an edge that I can radius instead of grinding glass out.


I cut a small hole in the livewell to take a peak in and be able to move it around. I will finish the cut,
I took a pic inside the livewelll to see the potter putty bedded around the edge

I am gonna put a piece of 1" coring under the livewell and build it up so it comes within a 1/8" of the floor so it will support itself.

[billythekid]

alright I got the anchor hatch cored with some divinycell to make it strong. I also popped the hatch out of the mold and gonna trim it with the router and diamond blade, I set it for just under 3/4" of an inch so it will sit flush with the bow. yeah I also forgot to prime the mold with duratech, I got moving and it was too late. I will fair it and sand it out.

I will trim it tomorrow outside because its a mess.


I decided to give the motor shroud a haircut on top and trim it in with the angle of the sides .

[billythekid]

Well with the bulk of the console work behind me I turned my attention to cutting the fom out of the edges of the back bulkheads and engine shroud. I will back fill these edges with either thickened epoxy or dynaglass. I took multimaster with the round blade that comes In the box that I have never used before and lcut top and bottom of the foam , then I took a long skinny scraper and just started on the ends and knocked it right out. I went in 1/2" on the thinner panels and 3/4" on the thicker panels.

[billythekid]

alright didn't have much time after work but I did what I could , I took the anchor hatch outside and ran the router around it and it cut flawlessly. its a screaming nasty mess,but with gloves, tyvek jacket,mask and a fan behind me it wasn't to bad....

I dropped it into place and it looks good, profile is just low enough not to stick above the crown in the bow.

I finished cutting the foam out of the bulkheads.

I then turned my attention to the bow hatch that is original. it was soft in the middle. what amazes me is I cut half the back off and it popped right off. I then spent 20 minutes beating and prying on the other side of the hatch. wihich was dry as a bone after 42 years.....

[billythekid]

alright marching forward here , I got the last little bit of mushed balsa out. I can not deal with the rotton nasty water hitting me in the face as I chisel the hatches.

let them dry over night and went to town with the grinder this after noon with the BIG fan behind me and grinded the edging of the hatches down where the coring ended. roughed up the old coring area and cleaned it all up .

cut 2 layers of mat to give the coring a fresh surface to stick to. laminated with a hot shot and cranked the heat in the garage.

after dinner I ripped the coring for the beveled edge. marked them out and mixed up the devilette putty and trawled it on.

bedded it multimaster, and clean up the outside edge and filled all the coring.