Sunday, June 21, 2015

2015 restoration work

A late launch in 2015 to complete some deck and cabintop wet/delaminated core repair, and some other restoration work.


Bad port sidedeck.

Foreward cabintop was particularly bad, a very flexible top skin.

Most sidedeck bad core removed to dry balsa.

The bad/wet balsa.

Nearly every piece of deck hardware was removed, and the penetrations were overdrilled through the top skin, filled with thin and then thickened epoxy, and redrilled through the plug.

Often re-used the cut inner skin, and taped the joint with cloth and biax.

One mistake was slightly over-shimming the supports and not checking the deck, resulting in putting a little too much camber back into the sidedeck after curing.