NE FL FS18

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fallguy routing out where the tape goes does not weaken the joints as your only routing less than a 1/16", replaced by the fiberglass and epoxy. Several of the guys have done this before now. It just takes a little more time. Tom
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Thanks for the tips, guys.
My intent with the pumps was for a clean and easy way to dispense to epoxy and not for accurate measurements. I have been pumping into measuring cups to verify accuracy. I will have to give the weight process some more thought as it doesn’t get much more accurate than that. Thanks for the breakdown, Orange! Although I will say the pumps have been spot one at one oz per pump.

It’s lining up to be a full weekend of family time so not much building this weekend. Need to get strings and transom glued, frames placed and then I can start putting the puzzle together.
Oh, and I’m over the heat. Ugh.

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Be aware that if you decide to measure by weight, the resin is a little different from the hardener- if you want to be accurate you need to figure out what each weighs for a given volume and use that. Marine Epoxy is measured 2:1 by volume, not by weight. Each brand will have its own numbers; I'd get an accurate scale (inside a plastic bag) and see what you have.
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I really prefer measuring epoxy by weight. For very large jobs like glassing the hull I would do it by volume for speed, in marked mixing cups that have the common ratios on the side. WARNING: confirm the markings on each new batch you get, I had one batch that was way off. I weigh water in the cup to confirm the markings of a few samples then trust the batch.

For smaller jobs and other epoxy products like fillet putty or fairing compound I find weight to be just as easy, more reliable, and you can easily do whatever size batch you want. A 1 or 2 KG digital scale using grams you can easily do exactly the ratio on the box or a multiple of it. If the ratio is 100:43 by weight then a small batch is add the cup, tare, add 10g resin, tare, add 4.3g hardener. A big batch is the same process but 200:86. For premix fairing compound you put cardboard on the scale and tare that instead of a cup.

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I have always gone by volume using marked plastic cup red for resin, blue for hardener, then teaspoons/TBS for smaller amounts. Tom
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Well, slow progress is still progress I guess. A lot of family/ kid sports and activities this time of year. Throw in a hurricane and time just flys by. I hope all of our Florida builders faired the storm ok and are doing well.

I have been able to get the remaining panels assembled and cleaned up. I’m going with the rounded chine so I took a little trim router with a 1/4” bit and cut my slits. I left several very thin tabs so the panels would be easier to move around. That worked really well and just took a sharp razor blade to knock off the tabs and release all the slats.
After the knees and stringers were installed I hung the transom and then hung all four panels. I started the stitching from the transom forward and made it up to where the rounded chine slats start.
I’ll dump some photos in the next couple posts. Please give my progress the eye ball test and let me know if you notice anything that I may have done wrong or could do better. Let me have it!! Thanks everyone!
Oh yeah, my wife wanted the laundry room redone so I threw together and few wall to wall floating shelves.
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Routing chine slats and transom hung.
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Panels hung and started stitching. What do you think about how I have the transom and panels configured? I have seen multiple ways of doing this throughout the forum.
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One more transom shot and slats all released.

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A couple more just for fun shots.
And before I forget, because I dang near did, all the frames are taped! Dang near missed that one.
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