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    1982 Starcraft Center Console 18' Rebuild

    Got quite a few rivets done today, it's slow going but at least it's still going. I don't know if you guys remember probably a few pages back I mentioned that on the seams if I used all brazier head rivets that the heads would overlap each other and wouldn't sit flush. My solution to this was...
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    21' Holiday Rebuild

    I may have missed this somewhere in the previous pages but what gauge aluminum are you using for the patches? looks pretty thick. And where did you get the 2'x4' sheets of aluminum? I see they sell 5052 sheets on amazon reasonably priced
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    New Journey

    Wow this thread is an emotional roller coaster, I was excited for the new boat then bummed when you didn't get it, Then I was excited you bought it then bummed when you said she's on hold until spring. I'm looking forward to watching this build as its the same boat I'm building but mine is a...
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    1982 Starcraft Center Console 18' Rebuild

    Still nothing new really to post about, I got the garage cleaned up today and brought the boat inside so now I can get back to work on it. The clean up might have been a bigger project than the boat is going to be. Here's a pic of her parked inside where she'll stay for the rest of winter. And...
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    1979 Starcraft 16’ SS Refresh

    Harbor freight sells the nylox brushes. They have the cup brushes and regular wheels but they're red, not any of the colors mentioned above. I've been using them on my boat and am pretty happy with them so far. The cups do most of the work but the wheels get into the tight spaces. The cup...
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    1979 Starcraft 16’ SS Refresh

    I know I'm late to the party here but I actually like the paint scheme you got going on there....the green flooring I'm not to fond of though. It would look cool if that floor design was blue instead of green though. Also on the rivet thing, If you think you're going to need more than 100 just...
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    1982 Starcraft Center Console 18' Rebuild

    I don't mind the riveting. If I ever do another boat I don't think I would rerivet the entire boat. I'm only doing it now because the amount of heads that popped off from power washing. The wire wheel for the dremel works good but I need a small tip that can get down into the deeper corrosion...
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    1982 Starcraft Center Console 18' Rebuild

    Ahh I thought it was your thread that I saw the dremel info in. Thanks for the link to it as well. Letting the rubber piece of the rub rail sit in soapy water is a good idea, i'm not sure I want to feed it through the entire channel though....that sounds like a very frustrating task. I was...
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    1982 Starcraft Center Console 18' Rebuild

    I haven’t disappeared guys! Just not a whole lot to post about....still chugging along with the rivets. I do have a couple questions for you guys though. 1. I know I saw in another thread about using a dremel to ream out the corrosion.....anyone have recommendations about what kind of tip to...
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    My First StarCraft; 1975 18' SuperSport

    Spent the last week and a half/two weeks reading through this entire thread. Just wanted to stop by and say thanks for all the detailed info in this thread, it gave me ideas for my boat and answered about a million questions I had....Good luck with the rig going forward and thanks again!
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    1982 Starcraft Center Console 18' Rebuild

    I just ordered some 1/4” rivets with a smaller head diameter to do exactly that. The heads should cover everything on the outside and with a coating of 5200 it shouldn’t leak at all, I was more or less worried about rivets not gripping good and the two panels peeling away from each other. I know...
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    1982 Starcraft Center Console 18' Rebuild

    The scratches are from the chisel I used to knock out the tail end of the rivets. Luckily it’s only the top 25-30 holes so it will be a small and easy patch to make. My boat does have braces but they’re aren’t angle like yours. They more like triangles but it’s the same concept, the random bolts...
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    1982 Starcraft Center Console 18' Rebuild

    I got out this morning between rain showers and knocked some rivets out that I had drilled the heads out of yesterday.... Some one has definitely replaced some rivets before because I'm finding holes that were carelessly drilled and oblong and I'm also finding that some of the rivets on the...
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    1982 Starcraft Center Console 18' Rebuild

    Overtime at work has finally come to an end so I have my Saturdays back to work on the boat...for now. I haven't gotten much done to the boat itself because its outside and the weather hasn't been the greatest but I'm making good progress on the interior panels, the z bracket and the knee...
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    1982 Starcraft Center Console 18' Rebuild

    I'm curious how you guys would tackle this... The corrosion around the big hole is pretty deep...a lot deeper than I'd like to see. The smaller hole above it a little is where it corroded all the way through. The other side of the knee brace is perfectly fine with barely any pitting at all. For...
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    1982 Starcraft Center Console 18' Rebuild

    So I forgot to take pictures of the trailer but the boat is sitting back on it. I put it all together and ended up not liking how high it sat with the 4x4 and 2x6 and I couldnt adjust the rollers high enough to get them in contact with the bottom of the boat so I took the 4x4 out and I am much...
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    1982 Starcraft Center Console 18' Rebuild

    Not a whole lot going on this past week, overtime at work should be slowing down some until the snow starts flying so I should be able to get some stuff done to the boat. I did a little bit more stripping, I've mostly just been trying to strip the bottom so I can get flipped back over and start...
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    1982 Starcraft Center Console 18' Rebuild

    Did some more stripping and blasting today, here is what she looks like as of right now The stripper definitely works best where it went on thicker but I'm still totally happy with how its working. Ran out just shy of being able to hit the whole bottom. Some pics below you can see the bondo...
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    1982 Starcraft Center Console 18' Rebuild

    Started stripping some paint tonight. Turns out that red bondo I was talking about in the previous post was actually a layer of red paint.....there is bondo all over though. I bought "Citrustrip" because it was relatively cheap compared to most other strippers at home depot. I was skeptical...
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    1982 Starcraft Center Console 18' Rebuild

    It's been slow going the last week or two but I finally got some more work done. Funny how you don't have anything going on until you start a boat restoration project and then all of a sudden you're swamped. Anyways I cleaned up most of the inside and got the majority of the bondo off, some of...
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