The windshield and hatches on my boat were sealed with grey butyl tape. It remained flexible and kept things sealed for over 30 year
The 5200 i bedded a few things with in 2012 had degraded due to UV
As i neer, the re-assembly stage of the boat, should I pick up butyl tape, or go with 3M 4000UV?
Progress from Sunday....
taping off the stripes to fill in the white
then the reveal
will need to DA with 600 grit, then 800, and 1000, then on to polishing, however need to finish spraying.
Next weekend is the bottom, and if successful, the cap
Bit of progress this weekend
re-taping some of the stripes
Had the admiral help tape off some sections between drizzles
Then sprayed the Harbor Blue
after breakfast this morning, will tape off the field of white in the stripes. Today plan on spraying the transom, and next weekend the...
Weekend progress so far......
laying out all the lines.....
adding tape.... first color being red
after spraying the red and removing the tape.
Sunday morning, started early, sanded the bit of over-spray
then used the pattern to layout some lines for the black and grey, and the blue...
Its a boat you buy when you hit middle age and need to compensate for shrinking sausage..... usually a go-fast boat...usually with twins or triples....always with straight exhaust. also a play on the cigarette style boat (think about that for a second).
basically the aquatic version of the...
Here are some pics from the weekend so far.
The dash prior to forming
Rolling Andrey's cobra body off the trailer
Boat off the trailer an on aluminum bucks
another shot or two of the boat
and yes, those are mud dauber nests that were under the boat
some more pics of the cobra
a bit of update......
transferred the graphics to white poster board to help me lay out the fine-line tape that arrived from Amazon. the poster board is cut to shape the hull to cap seam so I can tape in place, and transfer to the hull easy. this will ensure that I lay out both sides the same...
Had my graphics connection revise my hull layout. need to have the admiral pick between the blues
bottom is FCGI's harbor blue which is a dark cobalt blue
score of the day. current helm and cable were a bit stiff most likely old grease as a liberal amount of brake cleaner helped loosen it up.
old Teleflex SSC12416 rack and cable
was dreaming of ways to warm the cable, and try to flush the old grease, etc.
thought, not really feasible
new is...
update
working within the limitations of our laser at work.....
Originally was going to laser thru for the switch icons, fill the gaps with clear resin, then back-light with some small LED's
however the laser looses much of the detail for small stuff, however playing with the tech tables, we...
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if you are grinding, you need to add shims. the starter bendix is below the CL of the crank, adding shims increases the distance to increase pinion to ring gear backlash.
Hey Kiter007 , iboats_tim , iboats_zach something awry with the site today.
went to log in and the page was blank with exception of a single number 298283 (which I guess corresponds to my user id within the software) I did not take a screen shot.
my normal path is forums.iboats.com
after...
