Phragle's official winter upgrade thread..

[phragle]

Last coat or polyurethane on the console. Sanded, sanding sealer, sanded, 2nd coat sanding sealer. Sanded, 1st coat polyurethane, sanded, 2nd coat poly, sanded 3rd coat poly, sanded 4th coat poly, Work this weekend, Monday I will do a final sanding then the carbon wrap. I have the wrap layed out on the floor in the den to relax the roll over the weekend so I won't have to fight it as much putting it on. Also have a pint of 3M wrap adhesion promotor/primer.

[Ratickle]

So, should we start calling you Mr Sandman?

[phragle]

finishing the console, the rear cupholder, throttle/shifter and step plates still need to go on. Dropped the base for the throttle/shifter off at the chromers today. Now to flip it over and start cutting, crimping and shring wrapping.

[fund razor]

Looking good.

Hardest working Muppet in offshore.

[Ratickle]

That looks really good. Wanna work on mine?

[Hellbent]

The console looks great!!

[Ratickle]

Are you considering racing the boat this year?

[phragle]

Only big event planned this year is BT. All this fancy stuff etc. just doesn't come cheap. If all goes good with the motor build next winter I may screw around with class 6 in st claire or something, just to wipe a boat race off the bucket list.

[phragle]

Started cooking the spaghetti... All terminals are double crimped heat shrink with a second layer of standard heat shrink tubing on top of that. Everything will be fused and there will be weather pak connectors between the console and the dash. Tedious work.

[phragle]

Not teh best picture, but to mount the uhpolstered panels, I didn't want screw heads poking up under the vinyl. So I made a fixture to hold the screws in the lathe without damaging the threads, and cut the heads off. Next I applied red loctite and screwed on the T nuts. Then I swedged the T nuts to the screws on 4 sides with the arbor press and finally double peened the threads at the surface of the T nut. Probably overkill but nothing worse than something coming loose where you need to pull half the boat apart to get to it and tighten it back up.

[phragle]

Got the side panels for the console upholstered today... came out great...

[Bobcat]

Looks good.

[Buoy]

I really like it!!

[Ratickle]

I agree. It is looking really good.....

[offshoreexcursion]

NICE!

[old377guy]

Amazing craftmanship

[phragle]

Bling.....

[rschap1]

nice too

[Ratickle]

Cool. You won't have to take a mirror to shave in when you spend the night on the boat.....

[fund razor]

Happy belated birthday Rob. Sorry I missed it yesterday.