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60 Laminated Frames Cont…
Work has been continuing unabated but slowly. The pics show the progress – clamps and stuff everywhere! Just Frame 3 and 8 require steaming which will enable me to put the box away and make some room in the shed. Frames 1, 4 and 5 Pt and Stbd have been steamed, dried, glued up, removed and dressed to width and put back awaiting fitting and final glued installation. Frames 2, 6 and 7 have been steamed and are awaiting drying prior to initial glue up. As you can see the inside of the boat is an interesting array of clamps, blocks and rope! :o
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What I learnt is that it was difficult to get any sort of twist in the frames - just not enough purchase anywhere to push the laminates against the inside of the hull with enough force to make the twist happen. :C Subsequently I will have to individually fit them by planing in an amount of bevel that will bring the frame in contact all the way around. The middle frames will be OK but there will be some work required with those in the ends of the boat ie. 1, 2, 3, little bit of 6, 7 and 8. Oh well, some chalk and patience will be the order of the day.
Currently awaiting the frames to dry from steaming to free up blocks and clamps.
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61 Laminated Frames Cont…
Well I finally got to the end of the laminating task and have run the frames thru the router on the inner faces to round over the edges and more importantly, from my perspective anyway, reduce some of the heavy T.Oak meat that is in these 19x19 frames. I figure with the heavy layup of biaxial glass this will not make a lot of difference but will improve the look considerably. I used a 12mm quarter round bit and I’m already impressed with what they look like without any finishing work.
Next job is to bevel the hull bearing surfaces to get a good fit prior to final glue up installation of the frames. If you look closely at the pics you may be able to pick up the shadow that needs to disappear with this process to give me a good join between hull and frame. I’m thinking of a combo of spoke shave and belt sander to complete the job. There shouldn’t be a lot to do – the ends will need a fair whack but the frames amidships won’t need a lot of work.
Keep you posted! :2tsup:
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62 Laminated Frames Complete
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It’s done so I thought a single pic would keep the interested, interested! :U
Now it’s just a matter of sand to look spiffy and install.
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63 Laminated Frames Installed
Things move so slowly here during the winter months. Temperatures in this part of the world hover around 10-15 degrees for about an hour a day and other than that it’s even colder. :C Oh well not as bad as Europe during winter I s’pose. However I need to pick my times to open up the shed so consequently it’s about one frame a day that goes in the boat and nothing on weekends. I wouldn’t even get that done if it wasn’t for the situation I’m in that allows some time during the working day to get over there.
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So…they’re all in! BUT :o….still some work to do. I have been filleting each frame as I have been going but have run out of mix on the odd occasion so need to go back and ensure I have that covered off where necessary. I use a paddle pop stick for the initial fillet and, if I have left over glue mix, use a tongue depressor to enlarge it. The larger fillet is not required on both sides in either end of the boat where the angle between frame and hull becomes acute. I just need to go back and create the larger fillet where I think it’s necessary. I also need to create an even larger fillet along each side of the CB case to Keelson join. There is also the question of supports for the Floor Boards where they join end for end – need to add a couple of those as I need to cater for the Floor Boards being in sections. I haven’t quite worked them out yet – need to get the Margins in to get a better picture. Also need a couple behind the sloping CB Support. They’re ready, just need to glue and screw them in with a bit of left over epoxy.
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64 Mast Step Reinforcement
Nearly forgot...whilst the weather hasn’t had me jumping out of my skin to get into epoxy I took an interlude to do something a little bit fancy. I have never been all that happy with the narrowness of the Mast Step so I went and purchased a bit of scrap brass plate (6mm thick) and cut out a reinforcement piece for the Step. I made a blue on the other side and you can see where the drill nearly came thru. :doh: I’m not concerned as I will be bedding this in so no loss of strength. Pity, I thought I was doing a bang up job on this an’ all. I still need to inlay it but it will look good even if no one ever gets to see it! :(
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