How thick of wood should I use for the floor?
Yep, that's the ticket... The stringers look to have only the original rivet holes in 'em, so it's a 1st re-deck.....I see you are working with 2 stringers in there - 5/8 would be great for that setup(3/4 if you want beefy)
Thanks, I'll have to do some looking around and see if I can figure it out, gets me closer though
How thick of wood should I use for the floor?
Fastenal (Prime Fasteners in my neck of the wood).
If it stops raining I'll try to get a couple of pics of mine for ya, Gib I don't have a Nova, but most of the SC tinnies are built with a lot of similarities. I'm with Jason on the 5/8 or 3/4 inch.
I'll head down and talk to fastnal about some rivets here soon. http://www.fastenal.com/web/home.ex
Posting link here for later
I'm leaning towards 3/4 mainly because I have other uses for the scrap left behind, but I'll review prices, if not much different then I'll go with 3/4in.
Gib - My local Home Depot has 21/32 in. plywood with exterior glue. It says made in Chile, the same country as Arauco plywood. 21/32 is right between 3/4 and 5/8. It's sanded on both sides and looks nice. Last time I looked it was $26 a sheet. It;s worth checking at you HD.
Hey Gib the 2 channel like pieces go from the deck up to the front edge of the splash well, you can see them in this photo, they are screwed to the floor and riveted to the splash well and side shelf.
Thanks for that, makes more sense now.
Also skimming through a Jupiter rebuild, I can make out what looks like the foot rest.
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Hey Gibbles,
Yup that is a foot rest in my Jupiter. If you would like, I can take a couple of extra pictures for you and post them in my thread or PM them to you.
The foot rest part is aluminum and it attaches to a trianglar wooden frame that the gas tank sits on. Really simple and slick design. Given that the foot rest part is aluminum, to vinyl or carpet it is dead easy as the carpet/vinyl only has to wrap at the top and bottom as the alum is thin --- so you don't need to wrap the ends.
Lemme know.. IM
Since it's still raining I can't get the pics that I don't need to get now because you and Dozer got the pics I don't need to take in the rain. Is that clear, Gib? LOL Got any other mystery pieces?