About and hour of sanding on both Thursday and Friday…nothing too exciting! Finished getting the excess epoxy off the last of the long panels. I still have some bubble craters to fill but that will get done in the finishing stage I think.
Nothing done on Saturday. Was at Scheer’s Karate Tournament all day, watching Hunter [...]
Entries from April 2008
April 27, 2008
April 24, 25 & 27, 2008
April 23, 2008
Wednesday April 23, 2008
Time: 1/58
I haven’t done anything on the boat yet today as I am still at work but I just wanted to start off today’s post by saying that I got a package from Chuck and Sandra at Duckworks today and I have a Sand Shark to try out. It looks like it should be able [...]
April 23, 2008
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
1/57
More sanding!
Learned the lesson of changing sandpaper frequently. Did one half of one side of a joint and thought it was taking a long time. Tossed the sanding disk and put on a new one…next half went much faster.
At a cost of $0.80/disk, it isn’t worth it to use something that isn’t cutting.
I also [...]
April 21, 2008
Sanding – Monday April 21, 2008
2/56
I have been looking for a sander of some description to help with removing all the craters and excess epoxy from my less than stellar taped joints. Sam Devlin’s book mentions a Makita Sander-Polisher as being the bomb. I looked for the model mentioned and it is, of course, discontinued. I looked at a similar [...]
April 20, 2008
Sunday April 20, 2008
1/54
Slow day. Spent most of the day at work doing tax returns. After supper, I sat down and looked over the plans and realized that I should layout the positions of the seat cleats and the vertical seat supports on bulkheads 4.5 and 11. So, I spent a bit of time doing that.
I find its [...]
April 20, 2008
Saturday, April 19, 2008
2/53
I checked out the joint on the bottom. It looked pretty good but when I tried to flip the bottom over to join the other side it slipped from my grip and the joint bent along the tape with the butt ends losing contact with each other. I’m debating what my next move is and [...]
April 18, 2008
Friday, April 18, 2008
Not too much time today. I waited until after supper to check out yesterdays joints. One side was likely the best joint in terms of smoothness but still had a few bubbles under the glass tape it looks like. The other side was cratered…not as bad as others and fixable but still a disappointment.
After a [...]
April 17, 2008
Thursday April 17, 2008
More moon craters! I was pretty disappointed to uncover last night’s joint to find still more craters. I’m at a bit of a loss…oh well, I joined the second bilge panel tonight so I only have the bottom left to do. I think I am going to do the bottom in two days and only [...]
April 16, 2008
Wednesday April 16, 2008
I got out in the garage after 8. I was hoping to join both bilge panels but wound up only doing one.
I took my time and tried to lay out everything beforehand and to also know exactly what I was going to do.
So, after setting up a workstation on the floor, I started. I [...]
April 15, 2008
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
I got out in the garage about 8 pm. I grabbed the router and put my new edge trimmer bit from Lee Valley into the chuck, got on the dust mask, face shield and ear protectors, lined up the depth, set the stop on the router so that I can plunge down to the correct [...]
