Plastic Classic Forum

We started on the shed two weeks ago. The final design is pretty much what was outlined in the last post about the plan. I had Lowe's deliver the lumber order instead of making a dozen trips with my buddy's pick-up. 16 footers are hard to move without a trailer! The delivery went very well, they cal...

Thanks for the advice. I will probably go ahead and have the rafters 24" o.c. rather than 48". I guess I need to bite the bullet and set the columns 2' into the ground. I mostly new I had to, just was trying to avoid digging all the holes. The site is well sheltered with many large trees a...

Wow, Tim's engine is looking almost brand new compared to mine! Now that I have it out I can see the rust isn't as bad as I thought, looks like mostly the injector pump area that has most of the rust, but the underside and transmission are pretty clean. I had thought the 2qm went out of production w...

Hey group, In the next two weeks I'll be putting up a shed around my Islander 32. The current plan for a 16' by 40' shed is as follows: 4x4 PT 12' on 8' centers as columns Sole and top plates of 2x4 2x4 10' rafters reaching a peak of 14' at the center line, on 4' centers. 20' x 40' silver tarp to co...

Last weekend I got around to pulling the engine out of my Islander 32 project. Condition of the engine is that it turns over with the hand crank just fine, but there were probably half a dozen cans of ether piled around it. Given that clue and my last boat's engine finally overheating from clogged c...

Okay, I've got some more pictures of the sprint, engine, and the freeing of the saloon ports from their rotten cocoons. First off, here's the engine, any ideas? It's Yanmar grey, the oil cap sure looks like the one on my old Yanmar, and the instruments in the cockpit say "Yanmar" so I know...

I've got a 1591 and it is a real beauty. Having never used a 1584 I can't compare, but the new one sure beats my old Skil brand saw! Grizzly has a clone of the top handled 1584: http://www.grizzly.com/products/G8994Z I've heard it is a pretty good copy but not quite up the original, still for $60 it...

Simple Green has been a faithful companion for quite a while. So far that has been my approach, splash some SG in the bilge, hose it to a froth and pump it out. I will try letting some soak in overnight. In my last boat I swore by Castrol Super Clean. That stuff is wicked, would take the finish righ...

This is the group I've been looking for! I am about to start in on my new project boat. She is a 1963 Islander 32. I found it as an insurance salvage, got a good deal, and just had it delivered last weekend. So now I have an enourmous boat in my yard (just what I've always wanted) and have started t...