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[QUOTE]Nomadmusky - 4/21/2018  11:27 PM

Here we go!!! I finally got a day warm, (almost warm enough, but I did it anyway) to get back to work on the Tuffy.

Friday it got warm enough so I started wetting in the two laminated pieces of 3/4" ply with the West epoxy system.  It is supposed to be 60 degrees to work, but I figured Mid 50's with snow melting fast was warm enough this spring.

First I disconnected my dry fit transom that we laminated about a month ago, second I did one final sanding on the inside of the back transom glass, vacuumed, then washed with soap and water and finally acetoned it before wetting in a coating of West System epoxy resin, before I fill in the air gaps that were there to make it smooth to sandwich the newly fabricated transom laminate on.

You can tell by the snow that I was not putting the first epoxy coat on in ideal conditions, but the season is just around the corner so I have to push the envelope.  I wetted in the first flat surface and then went around all the edges.  I put it in the garage over night and it was still very sticky.  I put it back out in the sun and it hardened up pretty fast Saturday afternoon.

Saturday afternoon I flipped the newly build transom laminate over and wetted it in and did the edges again, later in the afternoon I glassed over the over drilled holes, (drilled larger than needed), I did that so tomorrow I can fill them with epoxy resin, so later I can drill them out to the proper size and not have them suck in moisture through the wood grain.  You can see the series of photos adding the glass and wetting it in.

I also wetted resin over all the screw holes on the floor and also wetted in the seams on the floor several times.  I will sand it down and add glass tomorrow hopefully.

I also ran epoxy over the full back of the glass on the transom one more time.
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Here we go!!! I finally got a day warm, (almost warm enough, but I did it anyway) to get back to work on the Tuffy.

Friday it got warm enough so I started wetting in the two laminated pieces of 3/4" ply with the West epoxy system. It is supposed to be 60 degrees to work, but I figured Mid 50's with snow melting fast was warm enough this spring.

First I disconnected my dry fit transom that we laminated about a month ago, second I did one final sanding on the inside of the back transom glass, vacuumed, then washed with soap and water and finally acetoned it before wetting in a coating of West System epoxy resin, before I fill in the air gaps that were there to make it smooth to sandwich the newly fabricated transom laminate on.

You can tell by the snow that I was not putting the first epoxy coat on in ideal conditions, but the season is just around the corner so I have to push the envelope. I wetted in the first flat surface and then went around all the edges. I put it in the garage over night and it was still very sticky. I put it back out in the sun and it hardened up pretty fast Saturday afternoon.

Saturday afternoon I flipped the newly build transom laminate over and wetted it in and did the edges again, later in the afternoon I glassed over the over drilled holes, (drilled larger than needed), I did that so tomorrow I can fill them with epoxy resin, so later I can drill them out to the proper size and not have them suck in moisture through the wood grain. You can see the series of photos adding the glass and wetting it in.

I also wetted resin over all the screw holes on the floor and also wetted in the seams on the floor several times. I will sand it down and add glass tomorrow hopefully.

I also ran epoxy over the full back of the glass on the transom one more time.

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