Here We Go Again

[strick]

Thanks Bobby thats what I thought. I must have misread the manual. Oh and your right. There are a bunch of wackos here in California

strick

[gerbil]

aluminum is fine in alameda county , not sure about contra costa (too many code changes around here) i just ran a 400' stretch at my shop , call herning underground supply in livermore, they'll hook you up with the wire and probably know the codes too.

Jeremy

[strick]

Thanks Jeremy-

I checked and it's OK with the building department so I'm trying to locate the wire now. Waiting on a quote from a supply house right now. I'll give the place in Livermore a call. I have 410 feet and we figured #1 aluminum would work for the 100 amp panel were putting in.

strick

[strick]

One year anniversary today. How bout a little fireworks.




Not much to report on the boat except more of the same stuff.... FARING AND SANDING. I managed to get the boat sanded and shot two good coats of primer on her inside and out over the last couple weeks. The fairing has consisted of mostly filling little blemishes and pin holes. I want the boat to look good when it's finished so I've been taking my time looking at the boat in all light conditions and adding fairing compound where needed. I'm sure some blemishes will get by me but hopefully you will have to look hard to find them.

Here are a few more pics:



The wire for the shop came in. Thanks goes to Bobby and Jeremy you saved me $$$ by going to aluminum and buying it from Herning supply. The other place was trying to rip me off they wanted $1700 for 1300 feet of #1 aluminum. Herning sold me 430 feet of triplex (three wires wrapped around) for $570. This is 1-0 aluminum so I ended up getting bigger wire for less money.




There were only a few more places that needed to be filled with fairing compound.



These areas will be spot sanded, primed and sanded again along with the rest of the boat. I have to do some cut outs for hardware and then it's time for some paint.

strick

[1bayouboy]

That looks great strick!!!!

[warthog5]

Chuck I see you have some blobs in very small areas as your filling stuff.

Go get you a box of single edge razor blades.[100 count box] Use the razor blade as as a spreader. when done chuck it in the trash.
This will keep from having filler spread all over where you don't want it and concentrate it where you do.

You will find it as a time saver.

[strick]

Dummy here has a whole box of razors but forgot all about that trick


strick