Oh boy, yes, lets just say Wednesday was not the greatest of days.....Well everyone makes mistakes, yep even me, and last week was my day to do it. After arriving at the shop today excited to see how the bottom had dried, I noticed somthing bad. I had forgotten to put down plastic under my boards weighting the joints!! Yep, just as bad as I had thought, the boards were glued extremely well to the bottom. After trying to carefully pry and break them free, I eventually ended up giving up after breaking a huge hole in the bottom and leaving three boards permanantly fixed to the plascore. After thinking through the situation I decided my only option was to get new floor panels. After talking with Jason from MBB, I had a new set getting ready for shipment. After that, I decided I better make due with what I could for the day and decided to glue up the side panels for the boat. I started off by wetting out the scarfs with clear epoxy and then used the 'peanut butter' to glue both sides together. After getting them in place, I used 1" finish nails to tack down the sides to keep them from moving, and I placed PLASTIC down, then my boards and weights. This was a great sucess and everything went very smoothly. I can't wait to see how they turn out!
(Large hole in Plascore due to no plastic between board and joint)
(Clear epoxy on left used to pre-wet scarf joints and 'Peanut butter' epoxy on right used to glue the joints)
(Scarf joints on side panels wet out with clear epoxy)
(After thicken epoxy was used here is the final side panels glued and weighted for drying)
(Large hole in Plascore due to no plastic between board and joint)
(Clear epoxy on left used to pre-wet scarf joints and 'Peanut butter' epoxy on right used to glue the joints)
(Scarf joints on side panels wet out with clear epoxy)
(After thicken epoxy was used here is the final side panels glued and weighted for drying)
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