Monday, December 19, 2011

A Bunch of Little Things

So I've been working without blogging.  Guess that might be some sort of Pocketship sin.  While I was off being selfish and not sharing I got a lot of little things done.


I finally finished the interior fiberglassing.  Since I had been glassing over the limber holes as I was going I needed to clean those out.  As I was opening them up I noticed that they had grown much smaller with epoxy and I was concerned that water wouldn't drain properly.  The solution was to put a de-burring bit in my Dremel tool and go to town opening those up again.  The tool (along with the flexible extension) made quick work of the problem areas.


From there I turned my attention to some of the rough areas where I didn't do a good job of removing all the excess tab material from the bulkhead.  Again the Dremel tool with a  sanding big was an easy way to resolve those areas.


Since it had taken me so long to finish the interior fiberglassing I did a light sanding of the entire fiberglassed area.  According to the MAS epoxy instructions there is no problem with blush but that if you wait very long you should rough up the surface so that the next coat has something to "bite" into.


The second coat of epoxy went on fairly nice.  I'm going to do one more coat to make sure the weave is filled in every where but so far the results look nice.

Hours this session: 18
Hours total: 175
Hours remaining: 235