Monday, April 30, 2007

Rub Rail, Cables, and Floor-take two


The wife and new addition split for Spartanburg this weekend and allowed some substantial time to be spent on the project. Friday night was spent taping off and cutting out the patterns that we wanted on the recently addressed floor. Since the last update, Phil spent alot of time, sandblasting the original Durabak off, epoxy painting the floor, priming it, and then applying generous coats of top coat paint (3 total). We have concluded that we caused the durabak to fail b/c we did not spend enough time in the prep work...so this time sand, vac, tac cloth, acetone wipe, solvent cleaner wipe and then apply the paint - each time...it appears to have resulted in better adhesion. After the sanding, we applied the new Durabak on Saturday morning.


While that was setting up, we installed the rub rail...per the install instructions, it was pretty easy to do but there are alot of screws in the install.


After the rub rail was finished, I sported the tyvex suit, respirator and goggles and started sandblasting the bottom in preparation for the bottom paint - mostly to get the barnacles and old paint off. Phil got back to putting the engines back in order and came up with a method to get the hose covers inside the engine covers...looks better than before and should give us a nice seal: