Re: 1959 ????? Anybody Remember this boat? (1959 Glasscat Project underway)
Re: 1959 ????? Anybody Remember this boat? (1959 Glasscat Project underway)
Hello everybody,
Ezmobee, (you is da? man). Ok, I?ll pull up some of the threads on 3M?s 5200. Mucho thanks for the direction to search in.
Work is slowing down a lot (I was told I could have the day off if I wanted it)?.Duh!!!!
So I got to run to the hardware store and get a few little items and turn my mustang into a pickup truck again with a huge sheet of plywood. You should see the faces of the people on freeway looking at me doing 75 in a little green Mustang with a sheet of plywood on top.
I am an ?old flatbed driver after all. I can tie anything and it doesn?t move.
I started the hatch today. I began by a Google search on what hatches look like, and then began to build one out of wood. Most of the photos had a sort of raised collar under the hatch so I put that into my design (That is why the hatch is raised an inch or two off the top of the boat). I guessed that this has something to do with water not pouring into the hatch in a rain).
I added another stout support beam on the starboard side (you cannot see in the photo because of the deco trim). Now the hatch is secured to both of these timbers securely. I cut triangle buttresses to help firm up the joints of the collar. I could not screw; or bolt for that matter into the plywood sandwiched between the layers of fiberglass on the roof because it was way too thin. I think that the ply sheet was about ? inch. So I added a board that will be mounted flush to the top of the roof with bolt and nuts. (It is structural piece of wood because it is what is holding the front edge of the hatch up). I could not drill the holes today because I misplaced my chuck key for my drill today,:facepalm: I do not know where I set it down. I drilled the holes for the big bolts using the screw attachment for the drill. I found if you first screw an screw in normally until it seats and then run the drill at high speed in reverse you could use the screw as a rasp or file and gouge out the hole diameter needed. That is why the other holes on the hinges are not filled with bolts and nuts. It took only a few moments to do but still a lot of extra work. I should have just gone and bought a new chuck key from the little hardware store but, honestly I did not want to stop my project and run to the store. I hate stopping in the middle of something I am doing and run to the store for a $3 dollar nothing. So next weekend I will go to my boat yard (dad?s house) with the new key in hand and mount the front ?footer board?. I then stained the thing, 2 coats; the darker stain Sedona Red by Minwax. Next week I will coat it with the Spar Urethane and get it to really shine. Hinges work goodly and the hatch folds all the way back to the roof when fully opened. I need to get some sort of latch to be able ?batten down the hatches?. Sorry I always wanted to say that. I could not find the proper length bolts that were solid enough to securely hold the hatch. I ended up getting the diameter bolt I wanted but about 2 inches long. After I put the bolts on I cut the tips off with the sawzall. I bought the little plastic bolt covers and I will cover the bolts after the urethane is installed.
That?s about it. Have a nice weekend everybody.
Photos were taken at dusk. all the wood is the same color (looks very dark in photos)
Ok , ezmobee, I got a new question for you, I followed your link to the hinges. Looking at the offset 5? hinge. In the photo attached. With the hatch opening in the upward direction which side would be connected to the roof of the boat, and which to the hatch itself. The flat portion or the side with the angle built in? When I get them in hand I could probably figure it out but just looking at a photo it is hard for me to see.
