Sunday, October 14, 2012

Seat Back Tops and Electrical Panel

Filled the seat backs with expanding foam ala Jeff Hatch's pocket ship.  Great idea and works nicely.  The amount that Jeff recommends to purchase seems dead on.  Glad he did the math and I didn't have to!

After the foam was trimmed off and the tops were glued on I used a cut-off bit in my router to remove the excess top.  This worked nice but still needed cleaning up to bring it flush with the seat back and the hull.


I built the electrical box and marked its location on bulkhead #2.  With trembling hands and sweaty palms I used my jig saw to make the cut out.  Turned out dead on.  As did the dorade vent openings that I cut with a 4-1/2" hole saw.  Note the hole on the right side of the electrical box.  This will be where both the battery and circuit wires will enter/exit.


This is the electrical panel.  The cut outs are for a rotary main circuit switch and a 4 circuit switched fuse box.  It mirrors the lower cutout and will be hinged at its bottom and painted white.  Hopefully this will give bulkhead #2 a little bit of symmetry.


Her is the bottom layer of the transom skirt edging bent into place.  It takes a lot of clamps to hold it perfectly in place.  Right now it's not glued in position.  I sprayed this down with water after it was in position so that it will (hopefully) retain some of the curvature and be easier to reapply when it is dry.


Hours total: 410