Jigngrub
what type of epoxy resin did you use and how far does it go? I estimate I will have somewhere between 2 to 3 sheets of plywood in varying sized pieces in my build by the time I'm done. Also did you put anything on the inside of your compartments? I'm going to build mine out of wood and was thinking of lining them with vinyl if I had enough left.
I'm going to trim my lids similar to yours. I noticed earlier in the thread where you added some close up pictures of you lid trim, but i appears they have been moved and no longer show up in the thread. Any way you could get those back up?
Thanks Cody
To answer some of your questions:
1. I like this resin:
The 635 thin really penetrates the wood on the first and second coats for deep protection and the 3:1 hardener is pretty easy to work with. For the amount of wood you're going to have a 1 gallon kit should be plenty. The 1 gallon kit is actually 1.33 gallons when the resin and hardener are mixed together, 1 gal. resin and 42 oz. hardener.
2. As you can see in these 2 pics and post #12 of my thread, I lined my storage compartments with closed cell camping/sleeping bag pad for sound deadening and cushioning for stored items:
3. To install the angle trim on the hatches, I put the angle on
after the hatches were wrapped in vinyl:
Before the angle.
After the wrap.
I mitered the angle at the corners:
I used 3/16 diameter closed end blind rivets with a countersunk head to attach the angles to the hatch lids, a fairly tedious task with lots of drilling and countersinking with the rivets on about 3" centers for a sturdy installation. You can find those rivets at a place called rivets online on the net, not many places carry the countersunk head rivets.
If you have any more questions feel free to ask and I'll try to help the best I can.[
