Re: Love, Necessity and Pride
Uhmmm, some serious slide rule manipulations need to be miscombobulated to decrease the eruption velocities of the white lava erupting from the nether regions below the bassassin's plywood level staging area. This will increase the volume of resources in the silver receptacles containing the lava ingredients and significantly reduce the cleanup efforts of the film crew. That's just the opinion of a Dumb Okie.
All the while I was thinking to myself that I should have contacted my favorite Okie to help me do some calcumalating of the orifice capacities to better insure less mess...:facepalm:
Whose the
scruffy looking nerf herder ya got narrating this little production of your's? He may have been overpaid unless paid in fermented hops. And that might be part of the problem.....
At 10:20 explosive volcano eruption of foam is right, that cavity oughta be nice & full.........
Excellent work! I like the video perspective. Troops close, but it was almost 1st person perspective & I was doing the foaming.
Great work. Thanks!
LOL! yep that scruffy nerf herder was paid in full with a good, hot shower, some cold frosties and a nice grilled steak dinner with fresh corn on the cob and a salad...
Wonderful! Felt like. I was right there with you in all that sticky mess
Thanks Troop, The entire time I was doing this part of the project, I could almost hear the entire Iboats community cheering me on and it was actually kind of fun and a pretty cool learning experience...
GT1M, I don't post much on your rebuild but I do watch and read your progress for a few reasons. First I do like your boat and I also had a Glasstream HydroBass boat much like the one you are rebuilding. Second I'm doing something a lot smaller is scale and watch how your coming along for pointers. Third I like your workmanship and attention to details. With that said, your foaming efforts looked neat! I will be doing that in the next few months...I hope. Question, did your estimates follow the actual amounts you used with the foam? Just wondering so I know how to do the same estimations myself. Great job and great videos. I know lots of others will certainly learn from your efforts to post things like that...
Thanks gm,
I really appreciate the kudos...
My actual estimate for the foam amount is more like what I want to try and achieve and how much can I actually stuff in the finished product...let me explain...
I am hoping to do as close to a full 10 gallons of mixed product in an attempt to get approximately the fully loaded boat weight worth of floatation...my best estimate is that the boat has a maximum loaded weight of about 2200-2400 pounds...that really is a best guess from the limited amount of info I have been able to research for this particular boat...it had no build plates on it when I got it, and very little is available on the net...
With that in mind a full 10 gallon kit should theoretically yield 40 cubic feet of foam, which should provide about 60 lbs. of floatation per cubic foot, or about 2400 lbs. of floatation.
Now I know there are many things in the construction of a boat that offset the need for so much floatation, but to paraphrase an Iboats member, I consider overkill just about right...
Even if I don't get it all in there, I should have enough of an overage margin to provide plenty of floatation in case of the unforeseen...
So to sort of answer your question, I have made some rudimentary calculations on where I am going to use pour foam, and I have come to the conclusion that I should have pretty close to enough cavities to get close to using the full 10 gallons...but if I only get 6-8 in there, I should still be way ahead of the weight vs. floatation game...
