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04-21-2007, 10:22 PM
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Re: Here We Go Again
More bracket work. Better hurry Tim I'm catching up
 The transom is made up of 2 pieces of 3/4 inch ply with a 5/8 inch foam in the center. This was cut to fit and cabosiled in place.   3 layers of 1708 over the top    The stringers are made of 2 pieces of 5/8 foam glued together. They are tabbed to the flotation chamber and glassed in place.    More foam is glassed in place to build a ledge for the swim platform to adhere to. cabosil will be used to bond the swim platform to the flotation chamber.   The foam ledge will be totally encapsulated in 1708. I need to let the glass set up tonight and tomorrow I will do a little trimming with my grinder and finish covering the ledge. Tomorrow AM this thing gets broke free from the mold so stay tuned!! strick
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04-22-2007, 12:38 AM
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Strick,
You do out-damn-standing work!!!!!! You are the poet emeritis of molded glass! You have had me (and many others I'm sure) memerized with your creativity, resourcefullness and (excuse me) Yankee ingenuity in putting all this together. Kudos, Guy-Just great big giant KUDOS!!! 
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04-22-2007, 09:47 PM
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Strick,
Glad to see Rancho Seacraft is buzzing again so I can get my fix of your 20' project! I really like your foam stringers they look like they came out nice and clean. That big rounded edge looks easy to go over. Keep it coming. Oh yea and I'd buy the book too!
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04-22-2007, 10:10 PM
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Hey Hermit,
Where do you keep the boat, Stage, Oyster River, Ryder's- where? I used to spend alot of time in town when the Mayflower shop was a real store. 
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04-22-2007, 10:37 PM
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How about in the yard in 400 different pieces
If I keep learning from strick it will split time between the outer harbor (stage) and Pbay (two mooring theory).
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04-23-2007, 01:31 AM
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"Huston we have a problem"
Thanks for the nice comments but I get to remind myself constantly by my screw ups that I'm just a would be wanna be amateur. I spent the better part of 3 hours today cleaning up the bracket from it's unforgiving mold. Some of the MDF from the mold stuck to the part and I had to scrap ot off. For comparison it was like peeling off the label from a bottle. I had to wet the MDF and scrape over and over. The good news is that the bracket is out and looks good. The bad news is I have some sanding and a little quick fair work to do. I've never had such a hard time getting a part to free from a mold. Part of the problem is that I'm always trying something new and trying to cut corners. In the past 2 coats of epoxy and waxing the mold was sufficient. For this mold I put one coat of polyurethane and I don't think that was sufficient to make the mold smooth enough. Or maybe I should have used more part all. I've never tried PVA mold release so for the leaning post I may try that. At any rate here are a few pics as promised.            strick
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04-23-2007, 07:11 AM
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Chuck I use one of those Preval sprayers to shoot the PVA.
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