Miky and I made some great progress with the boat today. Besides doing a dry fit up of the outboard motor mount on the transom and thereby determining we need the long shaft 4 hp Yamaha, we also taped all of the exterior joints with a 12 oz. special bi-axial fiberglass cloth. You cannot see the joints because the glass becomes very clear once the epoxy resin wets it out. We will mix up some epoxy body putty tomorrow and 'fair' all of the joints we taped. Then on Weds we will cover the entire exterior hull with a synthetic glass material called Dynel. It is also woven and tougher against abrasion than fiberglass. Some of you will be attending Trek but the rest of us will work on the boat at 7:00 PM at my house.
All of you will need to do some serious portions of the fiberglass work for the composite materials merit badge. We will have opportunities on the exterior and later in the interior as well.
No comments:
Post a Comment