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Am I EVER glad I e-mailed Chuck Leinweber to ask a few questions about how to proceed with epoxying the hull the day before yesterday. In his explanation I realized that he turned the hull upside down to put the bottom and bilge panels on. I swear that the plan instructions tell you the opposite. [...]
Entries from May 2008
May 14, 2008
Gravity Is My Friend
May 13, 2008
May 12, 2008
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Spent a couple of hours late in the evening epoxying bulkheads 11 & 13 and the transom to the side panels. I painted all the surfaces to be joined with unthickened epoxy and then mixed some wood flour and cabosil together with the remaining epoxy and laid the thickened goop onto the surfaces before screwing [...]
May 9, 2008
YeeHAAAA!!!!
About 74 hours total to this point in time….
Well, my little experiment was enough to make me abandon my plans to coat all surfaces with epoxy before assembly…or after assembly for that matter. Given my work schedule, kids’ activities, the cold weather and long cure times we have been having and my impatience….I just decided [...]
May 9, 2008
May 8, 2008 Experiment
Last night I didn’t get in the garage until later in the evening. I have one side panel laid out and taped up for coating with epoxy. I looked at it and looked at it and couldn’t decide what to do. I didn’t have enough time left to try and put 2 coats of epoxy [...]
May 7, 2008
April 28 to May 6, 2008
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Mostly sanding the last few days.
I cut some Douglas Fir to size for the transom framing and glued them to the transom using Titebond III. I figure I am going to tape and epoxy these joints so using Titebond shouldn’t hurt anything. It’s so much nicer to use it than epoxy. I have to [...]
