1977 StarCraft 18' SS restore

[sphelps]

Swinging by to wish you and yours a Very Merry Christmas Decker !!
Hope all is well !
btw, The battery with the fish hook seems to be working well for me .. But your not the only one I have heard said they get the error message .. Strange ...

 

[Decker83]

Swinging by to wish you and yours a Very Merry Christmas Decker !!
Hope all is well !
btw, The battery with the fish hook seems to be working well for me .. But your not the only one I have heard said they get the error message .. Strange ...

Thanks for stopping by. Hope you and your family had a great Christmas..

 

[Decker83]

So gentlemen, I have networked my laptop that uses Win 10 to my desktop and down loaded all my Star Craft pics to the laptop.
I can now upload pics to the forum. My desktop has Win7 Pro and will not upload pics.
Now when I try to access the forum on my desktop it says access denied.. What is up with that..
Any help on this?

 

[jbcurt00]

Log off

Choose reset password and follow thru steps sent via email

I have multiple devices and since upgrade, ising more then 1 is a pain so I've only been using 1.

 

[Decker83]

Thanks jbcurt00. I don't have the email. I must have trashed it.
I will have to upgrade my desktop to Win 10. Until then I will just use my laptop for now.

 

[Decker83]

Happy New Year

 

[BWR1953]

Happy New Year! arty:

 

[Decker83]

Not much boat work in the last few weeks.. Between the cold weather and the flu, I've been slowed down..
Did manage to make a vacuum guard for my 7" grinder..

 

[jbcurt00]

Nice guard

Stay healthy

 

[Decker83]

Can't seam to get the pics right. :mad-new:

Made a simple cyclone out of 2 pickles buckets.. That keep the sanding dust way down.. It caught about 95% of the dust..
Out of the 12 sheets of marine grade ply I bought I only have 4 left to sand.
I know this is progress but it sure is slow.. After I get these last 4 done I hope to start cutting the floor and get a hot wire made to cut the foam with..

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[Decker83]

Can anyone see the pics in the post above ^^^

 

[Decker83]

Can't seam to get the pics right. :mad-new:

Made a simple cyclone out of 2 pickles buckets.. That keep the sanding dust way down.. It caught about 95% of the dust..
Out of the 12 sheets of marine grade ply I bought I only have 4 left to sand.
I know this is progress but it sure is slow.. After I get these last 4 done I hope to start cutting the floor and get a hot wire made to cut the foam with..

 

[Watermann]

I can see the pic, that should keep the dust down. :thumb:

 

[Decker83]

Yeah it really does help. It will put about 3 to 4 inches of dust in the bottom of the bucket for one sheet.
I wish I had thought of this back when I was doing my deck boat. It would have kept the itchy glass dust down..

 

[nrf414]

Decker cool idea on the cyclone!

 

[Decker83]

Decker cool idea on the cyclone!

Thanks nrf414..

 

[Timr71]

Great work. Now I'm caught up on this thread too!

 

[Decker83]

Great work. Now I'm caught up on this thread too!

Welcome aboard Timr71. Thanks for stopping by.. You have been doing a lot of reading..:couch2:opcorn:

 

[Decker83]

I finally finished sanding all the plywood today.. That was 12 sheets on both sides..:blue: That's 768 square feet.. :crazy: Going to start cutting the floor next weekend..
I didn't have a floor in the boat when I bought it, so I don't have any patterns to go by..

My question is how close do you put the floor next to the transom? Can I butt it up or do I leave a space?
If I leave a space, how much space do I leave?
I am going to leave a space on the port and starboard side of 3/16". Will that be ok?

 

[mbroughton02]

I ran the plywood flush to the end of the "beams" under the deck that run up and down the hull. This made the floor end about an inch shy of the transom. My thinking was I wanted water to be able to drain into the bilge readily in case I took on a big wave.