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Old 04-25-2014, 02:47 AM
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zen40
 
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Got the rear bottom sheeting on tonight, final block sand of the frame and bottom edge of the non trip, pre fit of bottom including the mid section, I've decided to build the bottom sheeting on in 3 sections. I piped a thin line of thickened epoxy on all bottom frame work then laid the sheeting on, taped in places with masking tape, turned the boat over and checked every thing was in place :-) weighted the hull on the building board and ran over all the bottom frames with a Luke warm hot air gun, this lets the glue flow just a touch, this is controlled warm heat not an all soy assault with a flame thrower. When the framing glue was pretty tacky I ran over the joints and junctions with another mix of the same glue, piped it in the joints, about a 3mm bead then fingered and brushed in the radius. Weights back on and I'll leave it till tomorrow. One of my biggest goals when doing this sheeting is to avoid as much glue as possible from squeezing out to the outside sheeting.
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