transom rebuild

[jobu]

If you leave three inches around perimeter...how do you get it in? (curious...planning a rebuild this off season).
I am a carpenter with a little glass expirience, I want to put on a bracket and fill in the transom. I am only apprehensive about doing the detail work like the baitwell and the edges and hatches. I will research this site further when the time comes...seems there is alot of good info on here.
But when it comes time to finisg the glass work...do you sand down and skim with filler to make it smooth?? (whats a quick discription of a good method)
thnx joe

[strick]

If you leave three inches around perimeter...how do you get it in?

For the answer to your first question read the post above you again but this time more carefully. The answer to your second question is yes. The quick description would be "Lots of sanding and fairing."

strick

[hermco]

If you leave three inches around perimeter...how do you get it in?

I'm not gonna touch that one!

[thehermit]

CHAINSAW Yup note the cheap chainsaw, puzzle pieces of marine ply, lots and lots of epoxy putty, and oh yea duct tape

A while back Hermco posted a job on a Grady(?) he did for a friend. I copied that method. So far I am pleased.

[Bigshrimpin]

I am a carpenter with a little glass expirience, I want to put on a bracket and fill in the transom. I am only apprehensive about doing the detail work like the baitwell and the edges and hatches. I will research this site further when the time comes...seems there is alot of good info on here.
But when it comes time to finisg the glass work...do you sand down and skim with filler to make it smooth?? (whats a quick discription of a good method)
thnx joe

Joe - when building a baitwell . . . build a mold out of MDF and you don't have to deal with all the finish work. When you design the part make sure that your seams are on flat surfaces (b/c it's much easier to fair and finish flat areas.

[Finster]

CHAINSAW Yup note the cheap chainsaw, puzzle pieces of marine ply, lots and lots of epoxy putty, and oh yea duct tape

Dam! We got another LTDan!

Hermit, whats your thoughts on Mic Light?

[Capt Chuck]

Dam! We got another LTDan!

Finny

I heard last week that Lt Dan lost his CSC password and could not figure how to get back on the web site. He since has sold his SeaCraft and is MIA..........

Goes to show ya how dangerous a STD can be ! Thats ( SeaCraft Transmitted Depression)

BTW: I think "scottm and "botapeje are showing symtoms [img]/forum/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[Finster]

Goes to show ya how dangerous a STD can be

Chuck, I'm pretty sure ScottM got his from a bath-house or road side parking area.

[ScottM]

Chuck, I'm pretty sure ScottM got his from a bath-house or road side parking area.

Nah, I caught it from your Sears catalog. When I was down at your place you slipped it in your bathroom magazine rack and I mistakenly picked it up. Man was that thing worn out...and sticky. [img]/forum/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[Finster]

Well you should have washed your hands before putt'nem in your mouth.... [img]/forum/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]


Yikes! That was almost wrong....almost.