I want to know why the drops I dripped on the floor have not hardened, but the resin in the glass on the mold has hardened. I mixed it very very well as always. I was then brushing the poly onto the glass over my mold and a few drops dripped onto the floor. These drips never hardened but the...
Can I use the PL premium adhesive to glue the epoxied floor to the epoxied stringers?? Is the Pl like a poly?? As in, will it act like using poly over epoxy?? I do have epoxy I can use and make a peanut butter, but I would like to use the convenience of PL in a gun. I will also be using...
Me and my friend Mark met at my house and pulled out at 5:00, headed down 44 towards the water, put in at FIT and hit the river about 6:50. It was still pretty dark but by the time we idled to the get up on plane part it was light enough to see. The moon was absolutely beautiful as it was...
I want to know what is the best way to attach the ply to the stringers for the floor. Do I run a bead of PL on the stringers and just weight the floor down, or should I put SS screws through the floor and into the stringers. Then glass over the top?
Hard to believe I started the project back at the end of July, I still have a long way to go yet. I just got the ribs glassed in and ready for some biax. I stopped by and got some 6" paper discs for when I start on the outside of the hull. I am hoping I get the floor laminated and set in...
We were out on the local lakes and decided to idle through the Dora Canal. It is about a 20-30 min idle to get to the end. Once we got out I gave it gas and came up on plane and then it just slowed down. It will start and idle just fine. If I put it in neutral and gas it, it will increase RPM...
Finally found someone to go trout fishing with me on Tuesday. I asked a friend to ask a friend if he wanted to go try our luck with some trouties!! (said in an evil little voice) Well he was at my place at 5AM and we hit the road and was in the water by 6:15. We idled from FIT ramp past the...
I have searched this site, googled, yahooed, I even asked jeeves! I am looking for a nylon/plastic transom drain. The kind that has a tube that goes through the transom and is threaded with a flange on both sides, and also has the threaded plug with the rubber o-ring on it. I have one on my...
I have seen them on many boats, bass boats, flats boats, and a few others. How can I build one of them? I want it to be about 20"X24" and be made from ply and fiberglass. I will be wanting to make 3 of them. Anyone sell a mold or anything to help shape it?
I ordered some epoxy from US Composites. I did not realize it is a low viscosity/thin. It seems to run out of the cloth on a vertical lay-up. It will still stay! Can I thicken the epoxy with glass bubbles and use it? If I do this will it weaken the epoxy? Or should I order new epoxy?
I am wanting to use this small 14ft by 4.5 ft flat bottom soft v hull to get into the skinny water and the flats pools. I will not be going further than a few miles when i do go far in it. I think it will weigh somewhere around 1000 lbs with the boat, gear, people, gas, and lots of fish. I do...
I have been grinding away on my little 14' project boat for a few weeks now and have noticed that there were never any stringers in this thing. It had a floor from the back seat to the front seat, which are long gone. It looks like there are small floor support beams which are almost like PVC...
I filled the transom in last night and used poly resin and wood flour. It seems to have left a few mil thick layer of what appears to be wax. It is hard as a rock under this layer, but what do I need to do before glassing this over?? :confused:
I have glued my transom to the outside skin and used PL adhesive. It has been 48 hours since I set it in there. How long should I wait till I tab in and glass it in. I plan on laying the fillets tonight and maybe glass it in over the weekend. Or is this a little too soon? I can always move...
On my 14' flats project boat the transom is 17" from top to bottom. I have removed the inside skin and rotten transom. I thought motors are either a 15" or 20" shaft. If I am wrong correct me. Should the transom be at 15" to better fit a standard motor size? I understand that this boat...
