Project TTB-Foam removal time!

[JasonJ]

Re: Project TTB-Foam removal time!

Yeah, the foam isn't that bad to remove. I found that to be the least offensive part of my deconstruction. The most unpleasant was all the cutting out of old stringer glass and grinding the entire inner hull surface. Dust-o-riffic.

 

[Boomyal]

Re: Project TTB-Foam removal time!

So far Jason, my floor is in good shape a few inches out from where it joins the hull and the factory made a very good floor to hull bond. I am leaving enough floor so that I can place 3/4" CPES saturated strips of ply under the lip, screw it and glue it, then set the new floor down on top of them and screw the floor to the overhanging strips. Then glass over the whole shebang.<br /><br />Unless my stringers, aft of the area that I am currently working in, are unsalvageable I'll be able to avoid the grinding there as well. Heck the F/G dust is bad enough just sawing thru the glass covered floor.(where are bdubious's P*ntyhose when you need them)<br /><br />My mahogany stringers are still well bonded to the floor but do show some spotty deterioration. I'm hoping to let them dry out, clean out any loose material, soak them with CPES, then sister up a 3/4" plywood reinforcement down the outside of them.