Pmccraney
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Re: '78 Ebko Lebaron - Therapy
Troop, since we are at about the same place, you and I have a lot of the same thoughts running through our heads...
On the heat and humidity, my resin has been kicking way too fast at 1%. I had 650 mils kick in about 15 minutes at 1%. I was doing a long lay-up along a stringer and ended up with air pockets and dry spots because of it... I was glassing indoors outside of the sun, but the shop is hot and muggy...
I, too, know that water getting under the deck IS going to happen. So, even though its going to take me longer, I am going to try and make a drainage plan for my stringers. At this point, I am inclined to use a method that was suggested by Oops (and I think actually done by someone else that I cannot recall at the moment)... I am going to construct pvc pipe conduits along the tops of my bulkhead compartments that run down at an angle to a pvc piece that rests at the bottom of the stringers next to my weep holes... Once the "plumbing" is set, I am going to throw some shrink wrap down in the compartment (the pvc will be inside of the bulkhead compartment, but outside of the shrink wrap)... I am going to pour the foam into the shrink wrap, cover the bulk head with a temporary (weighted) top and allow the foam to expand/set. The pvc pipe will make sort of a molded impression in the foam... once its set, remove the top, remove the foam block (which should come out because the foam mold is encase is a shrink wrap "sack"; remove the pvc pipe from the bulkead compartment; put the molded foam back in its little house, and move on to the next compartment... [not to go all domestic, but think of it is baking muffins in each of the little compartments; the shrink wrap acts like a muffin or cupcake wrapper so you can remove the muffin without it sticking to the bulkhead walls or hull or the pvc which creates the molded impressions/channels for drainage].
Once all of the little bulk-head sections are poured in this fashion... Throw the permanent deck on and go for it. Hopefully, this makes some sense... I know it sounds like a lot more work, but I'm 9 months into this thing, so what's an extra weekend or two to try and avoid the ONE reason we are all on this forum in the first place... OLD rotten boats....
EDIT: Also, at least a I found a use a use for the "cooked" resin in my little buckets... If you let them fully harden, they will dump right out and make for a nice little molded, plastic drink coaster:
Troop, since we are at about the same place, you and I have a lot of the same thoughts running through our heads...
On the heat and humidity, my resin has been kicking way too fast at 1%. I had 650 mils kick in about 15 minutes at 1%. I was doing a long lay-up along a stringer and ended up with air pockets and dry spots because of it... I was glassing indoors outside of the sun, but the shop is hot and muggy...
I, too, know that water getting under the deck IS going to happen. So, even though its going to take me longer, I am going to try and make a drainage plan for my stringers. At this point, I am inclined to use a method that was suggested by Oops (and I think actually done by someone else that I cannot recall at the moment)... I am going to construct pvc pipe conduits along the tops of my bulkhead compartments that run down at an angle to a pvc piece that rests at the bottom of the stringers next to my weep holes... Once the "plumbing" is set, I am going to throw some shrink wrap down in the compartment (the pvc will be inside of the bulkhead compartment, but outside of the shrink wrap)... I am going to pour the foam into the shrink wrap, cover the bulk head with a temporary (weighted) top and allow the foam to expand/set. The pvc pipe will make sort of a molded impression in the foam... once its set, remove the top, remove the foam block (which should come out because the foam mold is encase is a shrink wrap "sack"; remove the pvc pipe from the bulkead compartment; put the molded foam back in its little house, and move on to the next compartment... [not to go all domestic, but think of it is baking muffins in each of the little compartments; the shrink wrap acts like a muffin or cupcake wrapper so you can remove the muffin without it sticking to the bulkhead walls or hull or the pvc which creates the molded impressions/channels for drainage].
Once all of the little bulk-head sections are poured in this fashion... Throw the permanent deck on and go for it. Hopefully, this makes some sense... I know it sounds like a lot more work, but I'm 9 months into this thing, so what's an extra weekend or two to try and avoid the ONE reason we are all on this forum in the first place... OLD rotten boats....
EDIT: Also, at least a I found a use a use for the "cooked" resin in my little buckets... If you let them fully harden, they will dump right out and make for a nice little molded, plastic drink coaster:
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