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- Thu Jul 10, 2008 9:48 am
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Removing Polycrylic
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1160
Yes please Rick, by all means take pictures. The San Juan 24 is one of my favourite boats anyway. That being said, and now I am really hijacking, I often walk past the Nanaimo Yacht Club, and sometimes out on to that little break water to the SE of you and I always look for your yellow hull, but hav...
- Wed Jul 09, 2008 10:13 am
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: 10 days in the yard
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1869
I read a report a number of years ago by some chemists who were trying to synthesize the glue that barnacles and oysters use. They had encountered endless problems but they had several pages of glowing reports on what a fabulous adhesive it is. Works under salt water, nearly instantly, adheres throu...
- Wed Jul 09, 2008 10:06 am
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Removing Polycrylic
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1160
This is not intended to hijack the thread, but I have been thinking about water born finishes for a while. I have used varathane diamond coat successfully for a number of non-boat projects, and have used water based instrument lacquers on a number of guitars now and get excellent results now that I ...
- Fri Jun 27, 2008 10:23 am
- Forum: Tools and Techniques
- Topic: the FairMaster
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1531
I have an Ingersoll Rand linear sander that is heavy, uses a phenomenal amount of air, and is like a bull in a china shop in any confined area. My 8 hp compressor works hard to keep up with it, and it's quite a shock when you first pull the trigger. I would choose a root canal before using it overhe...
- Mon Jun 23, 2008 4:09 pm
- Forum: Ramblings
- Topic: Ever smell your boat?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 770
Somewhere I read that smell is the sense that requires the least stimuli to evoke the strongest memories. I'm not sure if I worded that the way I read it, but the gist was that it requires less input then the other senses to bring about a full and complete memory. I guess that is why babies can reco...
- Thu Jun 19, 2008 10:16 am
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: What is elastomeric sealant?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1128
- Thu Jun 19, 2008 10:10 am
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Muffler Net Volume.
- Replies: 9
- Views: 906
- Thu Jun 12, 2008 5:15 pm
- Forum: Tools and Techniques
- Topic: Leaking Ice Box
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1227
Balance; I'm jealous. We have to plan carefully to get the whole six pack in if we have a fresh block of ice. The white wine has to wait till the ice melts a bit. We have begun freezing our fresh water in smaller containers that can be mingled with the food and drink. When they thaw we drink them. T...
- Thu Jun 12, 2008 10:22 am
- Forum: Tools and Techniques
- Topic: Leaking Ice Box
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1227
Rachel; That's interesting. At work one way we check for invisible cracks or pin holes is to spray a thick red dye onto the material and leave it to soak in for about 15-20 miniuts. Then we wash the die off and spray a developer, which is nothing more than talcum powder in solution with alcohol over...
- Thu Jun 12, 2008 10:02 am
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Fairing Deck
- Replies: 6
- Views: 689
If you have the time to watch the epoxy fairing material cure, possibly while working on another area of the boat you can save yourself quite a bit of work by removing the worst of the high points while the filler is is in the green state, ie not sticky, but not completely hard either. Use a sharp s...
- Thu Jun 05, 2008 1:19 pm
- Forum: Boatbuilding and Repair Techniques
- Topic: Adding Core to a Finished Hull
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2659
There were two areas on my hull that were always cold to touch, and that weren't enclosed by settees or lockers. Under the dinette and in the head. I glued narrow planks of western red cedar with thickened epoxy to the hull like ceilings in these points. They are about 3/8 inch thick and I stained t...
- Thu Jun 05, 2008 1:03 pm
- Forum: Boatbuilding and Repair Techniques
- Topic: Mish-Mash
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2307
Ultimately, tabbing, while generally thin enough to provide some flexibility, will constitute a hard spot. The trouble with hard spots is not in their inherent nature, but in the execution. If a poorly fitting bulkhead is wedged into the hull and tabbed in it will flex the hull enough to show a ridg...
- Thu Jun 05, 2008 10:26 am
- Forum: Tools and Techniques
- Topic: CIN-TECH Laser Thermometer
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1222
We use similar units at work for checking pre-heat temperature for the welders. The good ones are very accurate and the cheaper ones are far more accurate than we would need for our purposes. They can be fooled by a mirror like surface such as chrome or polished stainless. They are fun to check the ...
- Thu Jun 05, 2008 10:12 am
- Forum: Boatbuilding and Repair Techniques
- Topic: Mish-Mash
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2307
I would be quite surprised if epoxy and limestone was soft and flexible. However, as has been stated, a soft area between two rigid tabbings would still amount to a hard spot against the hull. I see no trouble having rigid bulkheads tabbed to the hull provided they fit cleanly and do not force the h...
- Thu May 22, 2008 10:13 am
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: De-Waxing solvent
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1321
While not an answer to the OP I thought this might be of interest. Of almost all common solvents out there, only acetone and alcohol do not contain some benzine. Lacquer thinners, toluene, xylene, mineral spirits, and good old paint thinner all contain at least a modicum of benzine. Benzine is prove...
- Mon May 12, 2008 12:24 pm
- Forum: Tools and Techniques
- Topic: Drilling metals
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1919
Yeah, I would have to agree. I've made my living in a stainless fab shop for quite a few years now, and Zach pretty much got it as it is. Perhaps one note on center punching, since stainless work hardens badly, don't strike your center punch more than once. You can prick punch to help you locate the...
- Fri May 09, 2008 10:07 am
- Forum: Ramblings
- Topic: A cranky Swedish Builder? Nice note Sven...or something
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1894
- Fri May 09, 2008 10:03 am
- Forum: Ramblings
- Topic: May 2008 Photo of the Month
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1059
- Thu May 08, 2008 1:38 pm
- Forum: Boatbuilding and Repair Techniques
- Topic: Oak with Teak Stain
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1411
Liberty I guess one of the important questions would be the finish you intend to use. Oil? Varnish? The reason this is important is that oak has radial 'rays' that are quite prominent, and these rays take penetrating stains rather poorly, leaving lighter cross grain streaks which are most evident in...
- Thu May 08, 2008 1:03 pm
- Forum: Ramblings
- Topic: monthly photo??
- Replies: 2
- Views: 680
monthly photo??
I have noticed the conspicuous absence of a May photo of the month.
Not complaining, merely thinking in print as it were. I have very much enjoyed the photo's thus far, and use them as walpaper on my desktop at work.
Tim J
Not complaining, merely thinking in print as it were. I have very much enjoyed the photo's thus far, and use them as walpaper on my desktop at work.
Tim J
- Thu May 08, 2008 10:25 am
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Cabin Floor in a Tartan 30
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1186
- Thu May 08, 2008 10:22 am
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: Beaching project
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2112
- Mon May 05, 2008 4:31 pm
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Oil soaked
- Replies: 3
- Views: 519
I think I would try acetone, soaked on, and then wiped off and allowed to evaporate, several, if not many times. The rapid evaporation rate of the acetone would tend to draw any oils from the grain to the surface. Also, acetone will tend to dissolve it whether it is mineral oil, or a vegetable/anima...
- Fri May 02, 2008 6:14 pm
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Naming a boat?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1379
I would think, in a court, where the magistrate was none other than Neptune himself, if you can say that in all truth and with due diligence to search for said truth, that you have no knowledge of the vessel having been christened to any other name, and , notwithstanding the above, did wish to appea...
- Thu May 01, 2008 9:55 am
- Forum: Materials, Sources, and Innovations
- Topic: My new to me Westsail32
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3039
Welcome to the forum. I would be very surprised to see a propane tank in any shape other than cylindrical, or perhaps spherical. Propane tanks qualify as pressure vessels, and as such must meet specifics of engineering and testing. It is very difficult to engineer a pressure vessel in any shape othe...
- Tue Apr 29, 2008 12:07 pm
- Forum: Pearson Triton Specifics
- Topic: Triton Bulkhead modification
- Replies: 30
- Views: 4571
- Tue Apr 29, 2008 12:00 pm
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Traditional bronze hand pump in galley (plumbing question)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 727
I don't see why not. You may have to remove the foot valve in the pump, essentially turning it into a spout, but the foot pump might just have the pressure available to push past the valve. If you can overpower the valves, you could have a double system where you could suck through a check valve and...
- Tue Apr 29, 2008 11:52 am
- Forum: Boatbuilding and Repair Techniques
- Topic: Graphite for rudder bearings
- Replies: 3
- Views: 917
- Mon Apr 28, 2008 10:55 am
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Sanding rounded corners?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2173
I can see this thread is becoming a ramble. The company I work for does a fair bit of contracting to a pulp mill way up on the North end of Vancouver Island. Beautiful place, but the mill was origionally built in 1913-18. Much of the equipment there is of that vintage, and the entire mill is old and...
- Sat Apr 26, 2008 12:58 pm
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Sanding rounded corners?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2173
- Fri Apr 25, 2008 2:39 pm
- Forum: Boatbuilding and Repair Techniques
- Topic: Graphite for rudder bearings
- Replies: 3
- Views: 917
Graphite for rudder bearings
I read a post in another forum that described the building if a set of rudder bearings from thickened epoxy with west system 423 graphite additive. I have used this for hatch slides, but with graphite being at the top of most nobility tables I wonder about the sensibility of using it for use with a ...
- Fri Apr 25, 2008 1:32 pm
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Sanding rounded corners?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2173
- Thu Apr 24, 2008 6:13 pm
- Forum: Tools and Techniques
- Topic: Reinstalling a rudder shoe? (peening copper rods)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1020
Ideally, the job is done with two people, the riveter and the bucker. In the old days of riveted hulls (and bridges and even boilers) the red hot rivet was thrown up from the forge with a pair of tongs and caught in something that looked like a garbage can lid. Then it was placed through the hole an...
- Thu Apr 24, 2008 5:50 pm
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Sanding rounded corners?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2173
- Wed Apr 23, 2008 4:22 pm
- Forum: Materials, Sources, and Innovations
- Topic: Cabin sole decision time
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4363
- Wed Apr 23, 2008 1:44 pm
- Forum: Ramblings
- Topic: Kudos and other romantic notions
- Replies: 2
- Views: 712
Kudos and other romantic notions
I belong to a few sailing sites, and cruise others regularily and I have to say that the quality of workmanship I see here, and the quality of attitude in the words I read is well above any other site I have visited. The general desire to do things right is outstanding, and the overall level of aqui...
- Wed Apr 23, 2008 1:12 pm
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Prop Shaft Cotter Pins
- Replies: 3
- Views: 331
Silicon Bronze sits midway between passive 316 stainless, and active 316 in the galvanic series for stagnant (ie. low oxygen content) seawater. If you use a 316 stainless cotter pin in a bronze shaft/nut be sure to bend the ends snug around the shaft/nut so that the pin cannot work and wear away the...
- Wed Apr 23, 2008 9:55 am
- Forum: Boatbuilding and Repair Techniques
- Topic: Finish over Fairing epoxy question
- Replies: 2
- Views: 785
- Tue Apr 22, 2008 2:25 pm
- Forum: Ramblings
- Topic: April, going on November
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1297
This was the most unusual April I have ever seen here on Vancouver Island. The cherry and plum trees in full blossom, and almost a foot of heavy snow on the ground. We woke saturday morning with the power out to the sound of an enormous branch slowly breaking off a big maple behind the house. APRIL ...
- Mon Apr 21, 2008 2:56 pm
- Forum: Boatbuilding and Repair Techniques
- Topic: Oil and Varnish
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1459
- Fri Apr 18, 2008 10:18 am
- Forum: Ramblings
- Topic: RANT: Antifouling color selection
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1596
- Thu Apr 17, 2008 5:02 pm
- Forum: Materials, Sources, and Innovations
- Topic: Cabin sole decision time
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4363
The disadvanage with maple is it's tendency toward rot, and dark staining if allowed to get wet. Very poor resistance to mildew also. Very hard and strong though. Oak would be even worse, with it's tendency to stain blue/black when wet. The reason teak is the choice of the ages is its tremendous sta...
- Thu Apr 17, 2008 4:45 pm
- Forum: Boatbuilding and Repair Techniques
- Topic: Oil and Varnish
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1459
I used to be a gunsmith, and it was very common practice to mix oils and varnishes to achieve a tough, waterproof oiled surface. On a gunstock, water proofing the wood is essential, because if the wood picks up moisture, say on a rainy day, the wood will move and throw the accuracy off. Oils by them...
- Wed Apr 16, 2008 2:42 pm
- Forum: Ramblings
- Topic: RANT: Antifouling color selection
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1596
- Wed Apr 16, 2008 2:25 pm
- Forum: Materials, Sources, and Innovations
- Topic: Cabin sole decision time
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4363
curling bamboo
I would be a little skeptical of putting ANY flooring down on the sole of a boat without adaquate fastening. A lot of these engineered floors are a clip-together glueless system and as such if there is a moisture difference front to back (or I guess that should be top to bottom) there is bound to be...
- Tue Apr 15, 2008 3:40 pm
- Forum: Materials, Sources, and Innovations
- Topic: Cabin sole decision time
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4363
I second Peter's suggestion of bamboo, although I'll raise it with a suggestion of a teak or walnut strip kind of the reverse of the standard teak holly, so to speak. I re-did Aquappella's sole with teak/holly ply and I was pleased at how thick the teak veneer was, and how tight the rest of the plys...
- Mon Apr 14, 2008 2:04 pm
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Exhaust Hose; 1.5" or 2" ?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1391
- Mon Apr 14, 2008 1:10 pm
- Forum: Ramblings
- Topic: The Other Side of The Coin
- Replies: 5
- Views: 987
Well said Tim; Some how I knew you would hold that opinion. It shows in your work, and it shows in the other posts you write. In my experience with people I have found that the ones who are very careful and precice in the work they do are often the ones who are straight shooters when it comes inter-...
- Mon Apr 14, 2008 10:35 am
- Forum: Ramblings
- Topic: The Other Side of The Coin
- Replies: 5
- Views: 987
The Other Side of The Coin
I spent most of a two hour ferry ride yesterday sitting beside a very pleasant and articulate gentleman who as it turns out owns a boat yard/marina. We talked at length about the sometimes uneasy relationship between boat yards and boat owners. I spoke of all the tales of woe I have read of and hear...
- Fri Apr 11, 2008 5:53 pm
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: bedding polycarbinate deadlights.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 388
bedding polycarbinate deadlights.
I did a site search but didn't find an answer. I think I read somewhere that you must not use "X" to bed polycarbinate, but I can't remember what "X" was. Or maybe it was acrylic that must not be used with "Y". I can't remember. They say that the bladder goes next now t...