Here's the Costa Rican version of post cure! It was a scorcher out there, I'm super burned, worse than when I fish with no sunscreen! These things sat in the sun from about 8 to 4, and they were so hot you could barely handle them, but the resin dried up soo much it felt like we put paraffin in the resin and it wasn't even sticky anymore. Probably unnecessary, but it's free.
And then we got out the grinder and 36 grit and carefully cleaned them all up.
And then we rough fit them in the boat. They are pretty close, will have to tweak them a little, but we'll have them in Monday.
On one of the bulkheads, we had a little spot that de-laminated so we decided for the other bulkheads we are going to do the double mold thing. We have four bulkheads done, I think we are putting in 7 or 8, so it'll be pretty stout. The bulkheads are super light, maybe 30-35 pounds each, so 7 is maybe 220 pounds which isn't that much for the supporting structure for the hull. Here is our "double mold", we ended up putting about double the weight on it and it will dry for 24 hours before we demold it.
I need to start getting into the vacuum pumps. That would make a little bit better laminates, but we're in low season right now and I'm broke
07-25-2015, 08:40 PM
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