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Zach

It depends on the boat, I'm assuming you've got a round wine glass hull and not a flat bottomed something that is already flipped upside down... If it is a fiberglass hull that is still structurally sound, why the 17 ounce? I am kicking myself about grinding off the gelcoat on Pylasteki, and not jus...

Zach

http://www.adtechplastics.com/p-88-proseal-ez-sandable-surface-fillercoating-series.aspx I've used a few 5 gallon pails of this stuff, this year and I have had enough success with it to feel it worth recommending as it is expensive, particularly where west and other epoxy resins can be made to do si...

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It is cooling down, its time to talk more about boats and work on them less. Grin. That's my story anyway.

I'm more active online during that time of year when you've got to watch the paint dry.

Zach

Zach

also... Your mask needs to seal when you take off the filters and exhale lightly, to inhale and hold pressure. The reverse is true, that a hand over the exhalation valve/flap that you can blow into the mask lightly and have it hold pressure. Most folks, may think they have a good seal... but infact ...

Zach

Rachel, The 6000 series don't fit me either, as they don't seal tightly enough at my temples. Good enough for wood work, or a grinding face shield... but nowhere near good enough for grinding toxic stuff or painting. 3M makes a 6 strap model called the ultimate FX, for folks like us. It took me a wh...

Zach

Use #2 if the putty is an 1/8th inch. Use #1 when putty approaches 1/2 inch. Your first drawing is how I prefer to do repairs that requires a lot of compound, but an 1/8th inch is practically nothing for putty thickness with epoxy putties. At least on custom cold molded wood and plywood boats... but...

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Do not build a fiberglass fuel tank, for diesel or gasoline. Neither last, with ethanol as an additive. All sorts of boats are having problems with their fiberglass fuel tanks, epoxy and polyester. Not just boats, but old custom motorcycles and hotrods of varying sort with coated fuel tanks. There i...

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I've got to say, that the Bristol Corinthian is one of the prettiest boats I've seen.

I'm glad I saw this thread, as I saw one a few weeks ago and searched high and low... not finding what she was. Now I know.

Zach

Bummer about the phone!

Thanks for the measurements (twice...)

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Zach

An idea for you if you want to stiffen up the foredeck and not have to do any tabbing through that wee little hole. When you cut the deck off you can grind the old to freshen up the bonding surface, and then hot glue cardboard, hardboard, plywood, masonite... melamine (you get the idea) to the edge,...

Zach

Bummer! Mistakes make for a faster learning curve. I lost a pony tail to overhead glass work a few years back. With a nice pair of scissors the tabbing is pretty string free and cut Two or three layers thick at a time. You might have 1 string a foot. With a not so nice pair of scissors, or in some c...

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Didn't mean to rehash what Rachel had to say... Typed last night and hit send this morning. Thinned out all the rehashed thoughts: If the boat isn't a project remove all the cushions from the area, wrap everything up in plastic and have a shop vac with a yellow drywall dust bag, and a fine filtering...

Zach

Velcro dots at the top of the portlights.

Zach

I mix the resin out of one quart cups, and transfer to 2 1/2 and 5 quart mixing buckets depending on the ammount of thickened epoxy that is needed. 2 1/2 lines to a half, or 5 lines to one line for 5:1 mixes. You can work with each pot for about an hour, so long as you wipe everything out with a pai...

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Triton503:

Can you rotate the tiller up out of the way at anchor, with the engine tilted up?

If you could, a measurement from the tiller head back to the plywood the engine is clamped to would be great!

Looks slick!

Zach

Zach

Give Teleflex Canada a call, and ask for Mike Grey. It may take a few weeks before your call and email get to the front of the que, but he and his team are the best folks to deal with at teleflex for odd ball questions related to ancient products. TECHNICAL SUPPORT Website: www.seastarsteering.com P...

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Pearson made at least two different widths of jumper struts according to one of the sail loft I've talked to. It effects the ability to fly certain spinnakers. If you measure the length of the rest of the pieces you have, it'll be pretty easy for one of us to get a measurement for you. The length of...

Zach

I wanted to correct something above, as I was searching around the archives. The faster and easier approach lies much closer to Figments method. I've been changing my tune, and the vast majority of bulk fairing should be done in the epoxy and fairing compound and 36 grit. 1/2 inch or 3/4 plywood lon...

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I pre-fil the hole from the top with resin, as peanut butter consistency epoxy alone doesn't wet out the balsa wood around the hole. I did a few different tests on a piece deck that I needed to pull up, as a stop gap to keep water from getting down below. Filling from the top with a ketchup consitec...

Zach

A sharp fillet knife is what I use. Balsa shears easily, and the knife works well for cutting the scrim backing too.

Zach

If she were mine, spray down the inside and outside of the hull with a product called On and Off, which is a diluted muriatic acid solution. Hit it with a plastic scrubber brush, and hose it out. Two or three times of spraying and letting it sit for 5 minutes and it will remove any of the rust stain...

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These are just the finishing touch. I generally glass with a west systems mixing stick size fillet, if the glass is not overly structural Then a larger fillet of putty on top to smooth things out and cover any inconsistency... and not have to grind/sand through the glass. I've found larger diameter ...

Zach

Thanks for the feedback guys, I'll give the west systems mud a try... and see what peel ply does for a fillet. I'll give the mineral spirits a try, I've used acetone and denatured alcohol trying to slick out the surface without much success... perhaps spirits are the trick. Can't say I've ever thoug...

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I've been doing some testing of different products for doing fillet work prior to painting. I'm finding that fillets get worse the more you goof with them, and am working towards the right combination of putty and tool to apply them so only a bit of hand sanding is required to give tooth for paint. ...

Zach

I've done a few big decks, but haven't worked with Dynel. I understand that it fuzzes up a bit while grinding, but haven't ground on any that I know of. A new trick from a build I've been watching: http://forum.woodenboat.com/showthread.php?103895-Building-72-schooner-in-Viet-Nam The trick is to rou...

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Posted twice... somedays i think I shouldn't be allowed near a computer.

Zach

Run some thin resin in to the hole until the hole is totally full. Go down stairs and take off your tape, and catch the snotty drippings. Wipe down the spot with acetone. Mix up some cabosil really thick, almost dusty or peanut butter. Put a dollop on the middle of your spreader and smoosh it up int...

Zach

Looks great! You are a smart to go sailing instead of dust making.

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Zach

Chisel up some of the filler and see if you can lay eyes on sanding scratches on the original layer of polyester glass. For some reason a lot of polyester glass jobs go together without hardly any sanding. Also before you spend hundreds of dollars on your fairing filler/primer/top coat try to chisel...

Zach

Personally... that looks like a patch job to my eyes... but if it is stiff enough to do what needs to be done and you don't mind staring at it, why not? If you are planning to fiberglass it later in the season... don't paint it without at least resin coating the wood first. The fiberglass won't stic...

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http://ronbryze.com/finishing_informati ... system.htm

I was doing some research about wood sheet veneer, and tripped over this goldmine of tips and tricks.

Cheers,

Zach

Zach

Hi guys, I am curious if anyone has tried to put together a group purchase on things like paints and resins? I'm on a wood working board that just is splitting a 55 gallon drum of anchorseal (stuff to seal the end grain of a green log while it dries) at the commercial rate per gallon. Splitting it u...

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New tool... 2x3 aluminum box tube. 1/8th inch wall... It is straight, and comes in shots up to 23 feet long. I've been using it lately to fit out some door frames that are recessed along one of the walls in Noel an inch and a quarter. The bulkhead is 8 inches thick, so while it was plumb to the rest...

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Looking good! One tip, to keep some skin on your knuckles... If you take a razor blade and hold it flat to the box side of your zip ties, and pull the tail the same direction you are cutting the tail... It will make a stress riser in the plastic, and cut the tail off below the surface so you can't g...

Zach

Very nice work!

The rope is a new one on me... Only time I've seen it was on a rolling dolly for a wharram tiki 21, wheels 3-4 layers of 3/4 plywood laminated together and wrapped in rope/epoxied.

Very slick, I'll be using that tip.

Zach

Zach

Lewis Marine has a lot of interior goodies, and fiddly bits that other catalogs lack. http://www.lewismarine.com/ I wouldn't buy anything with a perko brand name on it, unless it is a replacement globe for one of their old pieces... Almost all the hardware is chrome plated zinc, and looks horrible i...

Zach

Rachel, you've got the measurements right.

Took some noodling when I was trying to come up with some figures for what certain jobs cost and the materials they require, when everything is measured differently by weight and a yard... isn't.

Grin.

I like that little dutch boat.

Zach

Zach

My theory... We as a people and human race use mat with epoxy because the biaxial glass with a mat backer is compatible with polyester resin. That is why everyone has exposure to it, as the shops and such would have to stock two rolls... People tend to use and recommend what they know. With epoxy th...

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Thanks guys, sounds like they both are good choices. Surprising when it comes to marine gear... (Grin!)

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About the cutting/grinding/sanding on the outer lip edge of the old sole tabbing. Give a try with a wide chisel and hammer to work loose what you can. What doesn't come out with a chisel can be cut out with a mini-grinder and a metal cut off wheel held so the nut rides flat against the hull. Less du...

Zach

The guide coat gives you a visual indication of when you have worked through a grit, and shows the low spots and pin holes in the surface. You hold the spray can 12 inches or so from the hull, and lightly mist a coat over the whole hull. The mist should be dry when it hits the hull. (check to see if...

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Also buy a few different brands of cheap black spray paint for your guide coat. Sometimes they gum up, some times they don't. The last few months I've been using rustoleums cheapest enamel... You can also un-gum a piece of sandpaper with a rubber abrasive cleaning stick. Jet is the brand I've always...

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The reasons why I don't use worklights for painting and sanding: You can't see the thin dry spots in the paint. Work lights are spot lighting and require that you can set them far enough away from the piece you are trying to light to get even lighting. Otherwise they show a bright spot, and harsh co...

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Rachel,

Thanks for the question... Looking at 2 and 3 burner stoves with ovens, gimbaled.

Thanks,

Zach

Zach

Hi Guys,

Looking at some propane stove choices for Pylasteki.

What have you to say about Seaward Princess lineup, vs the Force 10 lineup.

Also curious to hear how the three burner models work on such a small stove.

Thanks much,

Zach

Zach

I rigged up some lights after a friend described them, for spraying paint that might come in handy... as its hard to spray what you can't see. A bucket, some concrete, a piece of 1 inch pipe and a T with some nipples to act as an anchor, a piece of 1 1/4 pipe (might have been 1 1/2 whatever size it ...

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Depending on where you are, you may want some Cold Cure accelerator for that 545. Lets you sand the next day around lunch time when the temp is in the 55. Otherwise its a day or two before it stops gumming up the sandpaper.

http://www.awlgrip.com/Product%20Datash ... eng+A4.pdf

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There is no reason you can't make a cloth dodger top design into a fiberglass hard dodger... From my hotrod days, I would take polyester fleece batting and stretch it over forms of varying shapes of roundness... Stapling it on the back sides of the from. You can make a rounded corner quite easily, o...

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ou can draw file it with a fine mill file. Mark it, start in the middle and work out to each end. If you start on one end and file towards the center or other side it'll make a slope. Try to clamp it as firmly as you can and as close to the edge as possible so you don't get chatter. You may want to ...

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One or two map gas or propane torches, a leather glove, and a rag wet with water... or an ice cube are my favorites. Heat up the shaft all around 4-6 inches or so along the length... With steel I take it to straw color, and its probably fine to do if the keyed end is above the waterline, (Ie not a p...

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