Lessons Learned:
#1. Epoxy is extremely sticky, especially in the hairs on one's legs.
#2. Be sure you are ready for the epoxy when you tell your partner to "him me with another batch". This only happened to one batch of epoxy, it setup before we could use it.
LOL, aside from rushing my brother through the day's work, so that I could make a 2pm card game (that I missed anyways, sorry dude.) the day is hopefully going to be marked a success. The first additions to the 23.
Here are the pics of the work -
1st - coated the plywood with West Systems 105 Resin + 206 Hardener. - 1st coat was very thin (applied with a putty knife) and pressed into the boards. Sand. 2nd coat was pretty thick (applied with a brush). Heat lamp treatment to both coats for curing and wholla - you can see the gloss in the pic:
Next phase was to rough up the plugs with a wire brush and a sander - 80 grit paper. Action shot here of the bro, laying the grinder to the 1st plug:
We cut-to-fit some fiberglass matting and then took acetone, vaccuum, and tack clothe to the boards and the interior of the boat. Next, building. The order of application was:
-Straight Resin to the Hull
-Matting pressed in and air bubbles removed
-Epoxy + 404 filler (thick like mayo) this was applied with a knotched putty knife - to give it a groove
-1st plug put in
-Straight Resin to the plug
-Second matting pressed and air removed
-Epoxy + 404
-2nd plug put in
-Bolts, nuts, washers all dipped into form release and pushed through and cinched down with a speed wrench - good call pops on the speed wrench.
Inside shot of the plug:
Outside shot:
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