![]() |
|
#1
|
|||
|
|||
![]()
Strick - I know you're bustin my balls . . . Wish you we're here to keep the momentum going. I tried a few new things like putting the ears on the bracket (where it was hard to mud) and then using the brad nailer to staple MDF on a flat MDF board for the swim platform. Other than the shape of the stringers . . . I think everything was business as usual. I added some of that super absorbent fiberglass cloth into the swim platform and that seems to have worked well. Couldn't find super-sculpy anywhere! Oh yeah I used Maguires car wax instead of Part-All and that worked well too. I got a joiner a while back and that helped cut some nice angles on the MDF. I used a neat little trick too to put a 13/14 degree angle on the front face of the swim platform.
Those Pallet Racks make Kick Arse 8ft long adjustable height work benches. Craigslist $25 uprights and $25 for a pair of rails. They can hold 5000 or 7000 lbs (can't remember which) which is about the same as that old folding card table ![]() |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
![]() Quote:
![]() Tim is speeding up this resto by providing a key part that I was too chicken to try to build myself. ![]() ![]() On the cables I ran 2AWG tinned Anchor marine cable that I had. I would have made it to the transom if my buddy had not made bat cables for his truck last year . A carefully mounted bus bar(s) and my OMC cables should get me the rest of the way. I did look up the welding cable and it too was 2awg in size.
__________________
__________________________________________________ ________________ 1974 23SF |
#3
|
|||
|
|||
![]()
John - My cell phone went swimming again . . . I'll email you my work and home phone. The bracket looks great in the pics!! I am so happy that you took over and are hauling arse toward the finish line. Post some more pics when you have a chance. I was out fishing today in 20knt wind. The new lady friend turned green and blew chunks over the side . . . What a day!!
|
#4
|
|||
|
|||
![]() Quote:
![]() ![]() Well….Bigshrimpin delivered big time on his end of “the deal”. I picked up the bracket last week and have been working away on the finishing. I will say Bigshrimpin is pimpin with his very nice shop. Bracket at Big’s shop ![]() [IMG] ![]() Uh hum….the Hermit shop : ![]() ![]() After sanding and fairing and sanding and fairing and sanding the bracket has primer on it (did I mention sanding) Big...the sandpaper pile has been reduced by 1/3 and couting: ![]() ![]() ![]() My plan for the coating is 3 coats epoxy prime coat. 2 or 3 coats of perfection. Bottom paint where it belongs. All paints are 2 part and interlux says “fine” underwater. They recommend 5 coats. Still time to tweak this. Epinions?
__________________
__________________________________________________ ________________ 1974 23SF |
#5
|
|||
|
|||
![]()
That thing looks familiar!
![]() |
#6
|
|||
|
|||
![]()
Thanks Hermco!! - The lid was glassed on all the way around from the inside. We put 3 layers of 4" 1708 tape on the seem from the inside on the front and 2 on each side. I think the 2day resin head allows me to quickly forget how much work goes into these brackets. $792 materials + over 80 hours . . . that coupled with the fiberglass itch, 3 pairs of clothes (ruined), and the figerglass snow in the new shop . . . will stop me from doing another bracket.
John - It's looking great!! Keep me posted. Go blue with the bracket!! ![]() |
#7
|
|||
|
|||
![]()
Outside at the top of transom and cap joint has a tendency to get hairline cracks over time. I grind and glass this seam. Not structural in nature but if you used wood for core water can intrude over time and rot core.
|
#8
|
|||
|
|||
![]()
"Go blue with the bracket!!"
Well...that pic got me thinking....I went blue...1st coat went on and it looks great. 2 more to go. I copied Bonefish's tape job basically. Blue bracket white deck on platform. Hi Don. That artwork you do down in Stuart is truely inspiring. BUT..I think I killed Bigshrimpin with this project ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
__________________
__________________________________________________ ________________ 1974 23SF |
![]() |
|
|