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  1. 66Holiday924

    1966 Starcraft Holiday Interior Work

    The boat is in the shop getting acclimated. I head back to do the foam in the morning, the last chance for it to all blow up in my face... I've done everything I can think of. I have a controlled environment, I've kept the chemicals in my house so they didn't freeze or get super cold, although...
  2. 66Holiday924

    1966 Starcraft Holiday Interior Work

    I got the rest of the sheet plastic in and I took a couple pictures to show what I mean about the plastic folded in so it rides up the stringers. It looks like this is going to be the weekend that I will get the buoyancy foam in. My plan is to drop the boat off inside the heated shop overnight...
  3. 66Holiday924

    1966 Starcraft Holiday Interior Work

    Thanks. I think it is going to do a great job of keeping the foam off of the aluminum and creating a cavity that will allow water to flow freely. It should stay pretty dry under there between that and the natural ventilation that I tucked under the sheet plastic. The sheet plastic is wedged in...
  4. 66Holiday924

    1966 Starcraft Holiday Interior Work

    Got my framing and most of the sheet plastic in (ran out). I think it's going to work out great. If everything goes well, I'm hoping to do the foam this weekend.
  5. 66Holiday924

    1966 Starcraft Holiday Interior Work

    I have pretty much the same thought on that. They work their way loose. Rivets come loose and leak... That's part of owning an aluminum boat to me. Every so often you have to replace plywood and rivets...
  6. 66Holiday924

    1966 Starcraft Holiday Interior Work

    I hear you, and it's not that I'm afraid of the work, but I don't have a shop. That stuff has to be applied under the right conditions and I can't affectively clean my boat and do the proper prep work in 10-30 degree weather. I'm not going to let it hold up my project. This is my only boat. I...
  7. 66Holiday924

    1966 Starcraft Holiday Interior Work

    I kind of regret that I'm not going to treat my rivets with Gluv-It... I replaced all the damaged and loose solid rivets that I could find. I wanted to treat it all with Gluv-It but I just don't have the conditions to clean it and prep it properly to apply the Gluv-It. I'm content with doing...
  8. 66Holiday924

    2020 Starmada SOTY Winner: Classiccat's 1975 18ft Super Sport

    Congratulations @classiccat !!! You did an amazing job on your build!
  9. 66Holiday924

    1966 Starcraft Holiday Interior Work

    They're correcting the plating. I showed him the notes and without hesitation he said they'll make it right and apologized. Thank god some people still do the right thing. He's going to try to get them back to me before the weekend.
  10. 66Holiday924

    1966 Starcraft Holiday Interior Work

    One of the things I don't know about XPS, is how it reacts with gas, oil and chemicals that get into a bilge. I can't find anything about that. The pour advertises that it is unaffected by gas and oil.
  11. 66Holiday924

    1966 Starcraft Holiday Interior Work

    The foam is not meant to be structural in my boat, although it can be. The aluminum plating is riveted in the way the plywood decking was. I'm going to put plywood decking back over everything when I'm done. Actually, I'm thinking I should leave a gap between the plywood and the foam. I don't...
  12. 66Holiday924

    1966 Starcraft Holiday Interior Work

    Here's a picture of what I'm trying to do. I want to lay the sheet plastic, install the aluminum plating, pour the foam, then install decking. The plastic bridges the ribs creating a cavity under the foam. The corrugated tile at the front of the boat gets tucked under the plastic for the natural...
  13. 66Holiday924

    1966 Starcraft Holiday Interior Work

    Well... Bad news for me. They didn't cut my sheet plating right... The pieces are perfect except the part that is supposed to straddle the stringers is wrong. Thankfully, I can show them where it was their mistake, not mine. I guess we'll find out what's going to happen with this Monday...
  14. 66Holiday924

    1966 Starcraft Holiday Interior Work

    The plating is inspired by @Watermann chief actually. I believe it was his build. He had to raise his decking so he put wood strips across the tips of his ribs, bridging them, and then fastened the decking to the wood and his stringers.
  15. 66Holiday924

    1966 Starcraft Holiday Interior Work

    I am nervous about the deck plating. I think the idea is a winner but if they didn't cut it right, the pieces won't match up... That's going to suck if that turns out to be the case. I will be putting that in tomorrow and I can't wait to see if it's going to work. The boat is in storage and I...
  16. 66Holiday924

    1966 Starcraft Holiday Interior Work

    Yeah, man, no pressure now. This could be the ultimate iBoats build up and failure... lol. I have no idea if, or how well this is going to work out. I'm hoping to get some work done this weekend and then either next weekend or the following I'm going to do the foam. I am definitely an amateur...
  17. 66Holiday924

    1966 Starcraft Holiday Interior Work

    I got some pretty good news today. They're finished with my deck framing and they are going to let me use their shop to apply my expanding foam. Reading about expanding foam, I can see why builders use it, and backyard builders don't. Apparently it is very sensitive to conditions. If the...
  18. 66Holiday924

    1966 Starcraft Holiday Interior Work

    I thought it would look sharp.
  19. 66Holiday924

    1966 Starcraft Holiday Interior Work

    That might be the rudest paragraph I've ever seen on iboats... In thousands of pages that I've read I've never seen anybody talk to another member like that. What is your problem with me?
  20. 66Holiday924

    1966 Starcraft Holiday Interior Work

    I don't know why this is so controversial... All I said is that I'm going to go with pour in foam. It is the same foam as the pink panther foam. They've been building boats with it for decades. My concerns with using it is that the bilge needs to be able to breathe, natural ventilation must be...
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