The Re-Birth of a Scout

[Woody]

Awesome thread and it looks like you're doing a great job. Thanks for sharing.
It will all be worth it when you splash it

[fund razor]

At this point the gas tank was next.. What the heck do you do with ~20 gallons of gas???

I had to get rid of 60 when I cut my tank out this summer. I opened a free gas station for about an hour. I think that Phragle may have gotten in on it.
Great pics. Thanks for sharing. Keep up the great work.

[J-Bonz]

And the work progressed. These pictures were taken around May 17th. I bought the most expensive resperator I could find at the store and started to grind.... What a nasty job.... That is one thing I dont enjoy! I couldnt beleive how white the shop got. Dust every were!! I found the best thing to use for this was a grinder with a 36 grit "Abrassive Nutted Flap Disc"

[J-Bonz]

I found out, Dont use the 3M sandblaster flap disc with out using the quick change piece. I had it break apart on me. Thank the lord I was in the right place at the right time. Remenants of it is still stuck in the ceiling of the shop.....

[J-Bonz]

Holy Dust!!

[phragle]

When I did mine, I had an old craftsman 2 speed electric grinder, looked like an impact gun as opposed to a buffer. Put 30 grit on it, low speed, you could put all your weight on it and itwould brown all the lights in the neighborhood but i would just keep digging. Finally gave up on me..it had to have been 35+ years old. If anyone knows where I can get another one or a new set of gears, I would be foever gratefull!

[phragle]

get some flexible extension tubing for the shopvac, and tape it to you arm just up from your wrist.

[J-Bonz]

At this point I started to work on getting the Transom boards bonded toghether. After talking to Dave he suggested bonding them outside of the boat. I went with 3 layers of 1/2" marine ply with biax 1300 to connect them together. As Dave would say, It will be a "Bomber" set up ! At the same time Ang and I worked on the removable floor. That was eat'n up pretty good. Knowing that it wasnt structually, I followed the West systems book and created a grid patern on the backside and filled with thickend epoxies. I think it came out good.

[J-Bonz]

Floors done and the transom is bonded together..

[J-Bonz]

Fast foward. Its the begining of August and it was time to glass in the transom. Like I said. I was only working on it on the weekends. I missed some weekends traveling back to Ohio to go out on the gun & hangind at the Casino,

[J-Bonz]

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[J-Bonz]

checking out the chain of lakes,

[J-Bonz]

Michigan City SBI,

[phragle]

J- your standing awfully close to Stecz in that picture... are you really sure you want people seeing you that close????

[J-Bonz]

and just enjoying the summer since I knew the boat wouldnt be done for summer 09'

[J-Bonz]

J- your standing awfully close to Stecz in that picture... are you really sure you want people seeing you that close????

Funny thing, I kept asking him where the kool aid and sheep were.... His response was, "All I have is this 20oz of Diet pepsi and I dont know what you mean by sheep." Too funny

[J-Bonz]

ok, back to work... I bonded the transom in and filled in the gaps. I thought it would stick and hold good. I came back the next day to see it spouged out.. That created more work! So I ground down what didnt need to be there and added more..

[J-Bonz]

Ang wetted it out and we applied 3 layers of 1700 biax plus tabbing.

[phragle]

Funny thing, I kept asking him where the kool aid and sheep were.... His response was, "All I have is this 20oz of Diet pepsi and I dont know what you mean by sheep." Too funny

The funny thing is that the Pepsi he is holding isn't diet... that could explain why he looks 7 1/2 months pregnant.....

[J-Bonz]

That was a big task completed. I was happy to have that behind me but, still knew there was alot of work ahead of me.... Before I cut out the stringes, I made some jigs to help keep them in place while glassing them in. I thought I would use my 2 levels to make sure they were straight and vertical and use door shims with the keep them in place. O yeah, I spent almost a whole Sunday making my pattern of the stringer to replace. Talk about art and craft fair. Fyi, I lucked out and found posterboard on sale at walgreens.... 5 cents a sheet... I cleaned them out To connect all the pieces together I used a hot glue gun and strips of cardboard to increase the rigidity of them.