the 1967 Holiday 18 and Multiple Boat Syndrome

[InMotion]

Re: the 1967 Holiday 18 and Multiple Boat Syndrome

I'm feeling bluuuuueee now B2...! Nice foam-age! That'll work nicely for sure!!!

J.

 

[jbcurt00]

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Continued good work B, don't let the big blue tent cook you this weekend. 90's, jeez, that's a distant memory here.......

 

[Weep'n Willy]

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Hey, I like the blue foam! Put all the pink in mine and the tool of choice was a box cutter and straight edge. At least now with the foam in there you won't have to worry about the dreaded night sweat from the aluminum dripping in your face.

 

[barato2]

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shifting gears slightly here.....does anyone know the magic trick to removing the little end caps holding the trailer rollers on the shafts and the shafts in the brackets? i've gotten some of them off but it's always been a major battle. would cut them off with cutting wheel on die grinder but for fact that they're 1/2" and replacements are hard to find. i even looked at drilling the brackets out so i could just go to 5/8" shafts, but had trouble finding a cobalt-steel 5/8" bit locally.

surely someone knows the right incantation to say? do i need to face Mecca? does Harbor Fright make a tool for it?

 

[GA_Boater]

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Are you ready? Use a crow or pry bar. After you get them off use a small punch to knock the holding tabs so the tabs are fairly proud inside the cap. Be gentle

A HF tool? Sure works for half a cap. :lol:

 

[Watermann]

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Sorry about that B2, I may have a form of picture tourettes syndrome. :heh:

I think foaming is about a half step up from paint stripping. It's messy and takes way longer than it should.

 

[GA_Boater]

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One more thing on the roller shaft caps - Sometimes you can grab them with a pair of vice grips or channel locks and unscrew them. Vice grips usually work better because they make a good surface for the crowbar or pry bar if no unscrewy.

Also twist and pry using the aforementioned tools can work too.

 

[dozerII]

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Good job on the foam B2, roller shafts ya, a real pain in the butt, GA's last post is the way I do it, with limited success.

 

[barato2]

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Sorry about that B2, I may have a form of picture tourettes syndrome.

no worries. i was thinking about doing it anyway, but am loath to add one more chore to the list and push this thing a little further from completion. my do-list on the thing already looks like the Doomsday Book.........

4 more hours trimming foam and cutting out the plywood floors. pix manana.

 

[GA_Boater]

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[barato2]

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thanks GA!

another 4 hours last night. the flaking paint from the framing members keeps getting in my eyes, so i may have to pull n coat them just for that reason.

As threatened, pix. Basically got all the cutting of foam and plywood for under the bow area done last night, but I’m waiting for the last parts of the bow rail to arrive before I glue n screw it all in place....I want to leave the “wiggle room” in rail base stanchion bolts in case I have trouble getting things to line up when I bend the rail.


First pic: the evolution of the Polish team's Olympic luge.....er, the fuel tank cradle with its latest additions. With cradle screwed in place on the ribs, I slid the square tube along the bottom of cradle til it hit the rib and then screwed those down through the cradle floor. This weekend, will finish it up, replacing the last few screws with rivets and doing the plastidip coating over rivet heads to reduce the wear and tear they put on tank bottom, then installing for good.

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[barato2]

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So to make up the plywood ceiling for the 2d half of under-bow area, I laid out my cut n trimmed styro sheets for a “semplate” (that’s a semi-template).

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Marked em onto plywood sheet and cut it out; came out very nicely. Just one problem. Anyone see what it is yet?

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[barato2]

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The middle section goes at the REAR of the side “wings”, ASTERN of the hatch opening area, not the forward end. Couldn’t figure out why it wasn’t fitting into place when I’d done such a good job of measuring and marking, for once. Wish I had some pix of me wrestling it with it bent nearly in half under the bow.


Anyway, solution was to cut out the middle section, leaving the 2 wings separate....so much for the nice, rigid one-piece ceiling panel. When I laid the separate sections into place, the wings fit perfectly but I’ll have to re-cut the center section from the scrappage. Got it marked and this will be done and all epoxied this weekend. These 1/4" thick panels are a great example of why I do the thinned-epoxy saturation....it really stiffens them up once the resin-xylene mix cures.

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[barato2]

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I wasn’t able to get a decent pic of the forward section of the ceiling in place, but it fits nicely (nicely enough, no one but me will ever see it) around the curved hull edges and the aft edge almost perfectly bisects lower edge of the lateral crossmember. The rear half of said edge is where I will fasten the forward edge of “wings” from preceding pix.

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well, that's about it for progress this week. staying home this weekend so i should get some decent headway, subject to the dust storms for Saturday that are forecast to have gusts up to abt 48mph/....by sunday, they'll wind down to a paltry 28-30 mph.....

 

[Watermann]

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Thought I was the only one who screwed the pooch when cutting things up. Man that sort of work in an enclosed area makes me nearly go insane. My hats off to ya B2 :yo: nice work!

That's one of the reasons I stripped everything down and to have an open bow with no cover in the way so it's easy for my bulk to work up there. It would help if I were a bit smaller when it comes to working on these things but 6'4" and weighing in at 260 has it's advantages when brute force is necessary.

 

[jbcurt00]

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Looking good B! Nice work!

The headlight holes are just about as high as you could get (want) them & still have access to easily change a bulb. Somebody was using the gray matter during their layout

 

[dozerII]

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Real nice job B2, that looks like real tedious work, some where along the lines of trailer rebuilding.

 

[InMotion]

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Nice job there B2... tedious and really awkward place to work in! Keep the wheels turning man!!!

J.

 

[astor]

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nice work on the foam, can't wait to see the lights and shark teeth on her.

 

[barato2]

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gracias, gentlemen. lots of boat work this last weekend but not much visible progress, then week from hell at work this week. and now i have to shift gears to the house again since the EOKSTU is coming down for weekend. it's kind of weird, she is fine with me working on the boat, it's ME who feels guilty that i should be working on house as well/instead.