Some days I wish

Some days I wish we were doing something like this instead.

http://a-class.org.nz/daryl.htm


Faster, and you can pop out a lot of hull panels relatively quick. If only I had access to a suitable CNC mill..

What do you get..

What do you get when you let the boys off to play with the chemistry set without supervision? You get a mess to clean up :-)

Frode and Omar was to glue the rest of the bulkheads at frodes place last week. Turned out they had a small mix up when measuring the epoxy. It is suppsed to be 100 parts resin to 32 parts hardener. Suffice to say that 50 parts hardener to 16 grams resin dont promote a good result. Frode have to clean the parts, do some sanding and try again.

What did we learn? Mark the tins for resin and hardener with a big marker! I feel partly responsible as I did not mark or leave instructions on what was in the unmarked containers, but as the tins was very different, I knew what was in them.

Looking for materials

We do a round trip looking for good materials to cut into strips now and then. Here is a pic of Frode scouting in the racks at one of the warehouses.

Winterizing.. aka: The tin hat society

Tonight Omar and I spent a few hours winterizing the workshop. The single pane window was insulated with some layers of cardboard cut to fit and an alu foil on top. The port to the workshop was more of a challenge. The bottom now have a rubber gasket fitted. Since the port is made of solid wood, we stapeled some tarred paper on the inside, and topped it off with alu foil. The difference in temperature and lack of drafts was immediately noticeable. Hopefully this is enough to see us through the winter with good and stable epoxy hardening temperatures.

Great fun working with alu foil :-)