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Zach

Collinite's insulator wax is the wax for aging gelcoat...

Buff it down with whatever system you prefer, 3m, mothers, mequires... and wax is with collinites... it's a pain in the rump to put on and buff off, but the results last for a while.

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Zach

So... Two things that will save you time on sanding... I'm pretty sure everyone that doesn't find themseleves in a zen-like state while sanding, abhors the act of longboarding. The first is a sheet metal spreader. http://www.tcpglobal.com/autobodydepot/itemdetail.aspx?itemno=COS+1102 Plastic spreade...

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Any RV/travel trailer shop will have rolls of butyl laying around in grey.

Napa and auto parts stores carry black, in varying diameter round lengths for bedding in automotive windows. Takes some wax paper and a rolling pin to make the flat stuff though. Grin.

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If you are watching the cost the light weight filler I use is... 3m glass bubbles. I find it sands similar enough to the glass around it with 80 grit, that its not a big deal. 407 and 410 ticked me off a bit, as you can long board a surface and have to take 3 passes with filler before its flat enoug...

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I like anti-seize. What I use the most of us Permetex silver. It has a high enough flash point. On exhaust stuff, I put on whatever is handy... eventually its going to get hot enough to burn it off, but I believe the key is getting a layer of something that can turn to carbon between the threads, ra...

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Personally I wouldn't seperate the hull from the deck to pull the liner, just cut it up in place if you want it gone. As far as raw carnage and speed... The fastest way with a sawzall is to get some sheetrock cutting blades. They are 3 tooth per inch... Porter Cable makes them. 12478's They cut fast...

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Idea: You could core the cabin sides with foam, round over and glass the openings to the shape you want... when you glass the inside, make a flange to overhang the opening, and bolt the lexan to the outside of the flange. You get the look from a distance... shrink the portlight openings, and stiffen...

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36 grit zirconium paper (the blue stuff) on a sticky backing pad. Put it on a 5-6 inch random orbital sander, or an 8 inch variable speed polisher. The infamous Porter Cable 7335 with an aftermarket counter weight and backing pad... or a Makita 9227c get my vote for bottom paint removal. Once most a...

Zach

Cabosil is thixotropic, which means when you mix it up it will get thicker and thicker until you have a spreadable paste that will stick to the ceiling. This also means it'll stay balled up under something and not want to ooze out and give an air pocket. Some guys use wood flour for everything (They...

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Thanks guys!

I'll rig up a hole saw and see how much foam is really in there.

Zachary,

I'm envisioning a hole saw arbor, hole saw that slips inside our outside the pipe... no drill bit, and a bolt through the holes in the saw... How did you rig yours?

Thanks!

Zach

If the hose is tight on the 1 1/8 you can use a 3/4 pipe nipple, and a street L to make the connection to a more normal size hose. Hose barbs are beautiful things, but a pipe nipple long enough to have a smooth land and the threads provides room for two hose clamps. A lot of commercial boats have co...

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I've pondered ripping cellular pvc decking board (Azek is the trade name... the white stuff thats real flexible) into square cleats and glassing it in place. It takes epoxy, and is heat formable with a heat gun so no stiff legs or screws into the hull while the epoxy sets... and won't ever rot. I ha...

Zach

Wonder how the anchor rode feeds down below through that rig?

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Zach

I'll have to give that a try grinding the bits. One more to add, clamping a factory edged piece down on top of the sheet gives a soft straight edge that won't mar the finish, to ride a router or jigsaw across. On the real thin stuff, you can use a 40 tooth or thereabouts blade installed backwards on...

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As an ex-plastics industry dude... Whichever you choose, you can get a much better deal on pricing if you track down a plastics distributor and walk in or call and look for offcuts. Have your dimensions ready, and know what thickness and product you want. 1/4 = .250 3/8 = .375 1/2 = .500 If you ask ...

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Questions! Always questions... Show of hands how many Tritons out there have foam filled masts from one end to the other? Mine is solid full... My anchor lights wire is toast, and so is my masthead light. I'm pondering how to ream out the foam and successfully pull a new one. May have to see what wi...

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DSC_2892-1.JPG Yesterday after work I cut some out the rest of the cockpit templates I had been drawing up. Just 1/2 inch birch plywood, good enough stuff to hold a straight line without much help. I spent some time re-leveling Pylasteki, as I noticed a little air under one of the once tight jack s...

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She may be wet inside.... Freezing water expands.

I'd do some exploratory drilling to see what the wood is like closest to the hull.

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The sole is the coolest thing I've seen in a while!

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Grin...

It was a fun evening!

Holds up cardboard sign, "Will teach and BS about boats for beer and pizza."

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Hi Jeff, Buy a copy of Allan H Vaits "The Fiberglass Boat Repair Manual." http://www.amazon.com/Fiberglass-Boat-Repair-Manual/dp/0071569146 You won't need to use any microballoons, or do any vacuum bagging to make a structural repair. Your deep grooves where the bulkheads used to go, are t...

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Hehe... I found it quite funny... no apologizing!

Zach

Just for Rachel... Grin.

The shame of walking through a boatyard lunch room to scrub up after you've sprung a leak... "Pad sander" get that knowing sigh...

Takes three things to build a boat: Time, Money, and Blood.

Grin.

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Zach

That was cold... lol.

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Caught a cold today so after work when I pulled into Pylasteki's spot, I couldn't bring myself to hop out of the truck... On the main bulkhead I ground all the old mat tabbing out. Since this stuff runs along the length of the boat, I'm just going to add a little thickened epoxy (cabosil more than l...

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Way cool!

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Bigger picture sizes needed...

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DSC_2884-1.JPG DSC_2883-1.JPG I think more dust was made in the last 2 days than the entirety of the great grinder war of 2009. Settees removed, head bulkheads removed. Chainplates pulled, galley bulkheads removed... Salon shelves removed... Then all the tabs ground down. I ground down to the first...

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I'd go for it if you are willing to make the time. I'd say go for it, if you want to build that particular boat... and it has picked you. If, in its derelict state you can't help but see it as a cherry waiting to be plucked. I fell in love with a Cheoy Lee Bermuda 30 early on and talked myself out o...

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Today... Finished grinding out the tabbing for all the settees, bulkheads, and starboard shelf. I took those down too... New ones will run full length. I pulled out the port aft lower chain plate and knee. It too, was full of water... though surprisingly not rotten. I goofed. I was grinding with my ...

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I use hot glue in a similar way to David... Though I rip 2 inch wide stuff of door skins or 1/8th inch ply... then use the fingers to go out and touch the hull. It takes a pretty tight radius for 2 points 2 inches apart not to describe the curve... Then go back and play connect the dots for tight st...

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Two nights ago I laid up a sheet of divinycell with a layer of 1708 on each side. It was set up and pretty this morning... Last night It was raining, but not blowing very hard so I could work inside and stay dry. I went from around 5:30 until 9:30. I cut out the starboard settee with a skill saw and...

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Pictures from yesterday

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I use a fillet knife. Make a line with a sharpie, lay your fillet knife down... hold hand on the back, rock it and it shears off 6 or 8 inches. Edit: This means you use less epoxy, as you can cut the balsa on angles other than the square blocks on the scrim. After the balsa is cut, I flop the stuff ...

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Slightly abused cockpits... I could crate my old one up, but its in a pile... Today: Pictures on the blog. Today I took off work around 3:00 and went till 7... I started out with a template of the stringers that will become the cockpit sides. The easiest way I've found to start a project that hangs ...

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I keep mulling over this style... I love the look of a squared off hull joint, sharp crisp shear line. Bulwarks that don't puddle water...

But, what happens when you drop a wrench on deck... And you lose the ability to use the deck as a water collector. (Foot funk and all)

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I thought that was a cool way of doing a bulwark... rest of the site is pretty cool. Lots of varnish and stuff.

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The war isn't over folks... Pylasteki still needs work. Some plans have changed, some have stayed the same. The dumb ideas have been set aside (Thanks for those who have helped with that!) hole.JPG So, last fall I cut out Pylasteki's cockpit to gain access to the rudder tube and make the cockpit loc...

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So... I've been doing some head scratching. I've burned up 4 shop vacs in the last year. They get the moaaaan of death before the smoke comes out of the motor and they finally die. Using a yellow dry wall bag, a green hepa filter... and cutting a piece of foam to slide in between the hose and the ba...

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As far as the pan goes... make sure there is a break or lip before things roll right out on your cabin sole. If you overfill the A4, or are in real rough conditions it'll puke out the front main seal. That means your pan has to extend past the front of the engine to account for drips/sloshes as the ...

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Welp, now that my wailing about new tool discoveries is over... Guess part of the next paycheck goes to a forrest!
It's for the tree's man... the trees.

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I picked up one of these at the lumber yard for my skill saw (A dewalt... which is also spectacular, it runs the same speed no matter what load you put on it.) and have got to say I'm sold. They follow a straight line quite easily, but if set shallow you can cut a tighter radius than I've ever seen ...

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I have the prop shaft, coupling, and shaft log off Pylasteki if you want them... I went to an outboard.
Uh... I also have the stainless steel 3 blade prop from Indigo. Grin.

I'll have to measure and see what size they are.

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On my Triton I use pallets. If you are in a yard that does steel boats, they bring in sand by the pallet... Stack them up to the height you want and add some junk boards. On the big stuff on a railway... I'm on 2x12's that are 14-16 feet long spanning between A frame scaffolds made out of 4x4's. The...

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Way cool thread.

I'm thinking about using the G10 method of glass holding, to put together a smoked glass window in one of the showers on Noel. That'd be a slick, easy to clean way to go about holding everything together.
I don't like fastener holes in stuff like that.

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You get out of the shower, and realize your belly button lint was wet out with fiberglass resin... Grin. You set aside your clothes, in the morning you load the laundry machine and find your socks glued to your jeans. You glue your jeans to the floor from not inspecting them first... That tile just ...

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Where are you located? The cheapest equation is to track down a small time boat builder that has commercial accounts and is willing to resell product to you. A lot of small shops when times are slow have no problem doing it and making 5-10% for no real work... Look up Paxton or Lewis Marine and see ...

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I've looked at a few turn of the century (1900... grin) sloops that were originally gaffs, turned bermuda rig. A lot of them have bronze pipe, with threaded couplings the same as one would see in a factory for securing black iron pipe to a concrete floor as a hand rail. Gallows mid way in the cockpi...

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Oh, the other half of why wide stuff... I've been goofing around with lost foam molding, and would like some thicker stuff than normal wood veneer so it can stand up on its own. Sort of like the old hot laminated dinghies of the 20's and 30's, to be able to lay a thin skin of wood across some forms ...

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