RickK's 170 rebuild

[RickK]

This is the intent of the seat for access - take it off and set it somewhere for the time needed.


You can see how the batteries fit in the tapered console and also how the console sits on the hatch.

[RickK]

I asked my buddy Ed to lift the seat and he figured it weighs at least 30 lbs.  I stood on it and it was like standing on the driveway.  


I traced the in and outline of the console and it looks like I will be able to glass the console to the hatch on the inside with no problems.  The hatch will be bolted down to the stringers.

[fishinonthebrain]

Warthog is on CM?

Yup, and he's a member here but hasn't been around in a while.

Rick do you have a link to his thread since it was so long ago?  CM's search function is not very reliable.

[seabob4]

Bobby (Warthog) doesn't even play much on CM anymore...

[RickK]

Rick do you have a link to his thread since it was so long ago?  CM's search function is not very reliable.

Bunch of stuff happening on this rebuild to learn from.
http://www.classicmako.com/projects/xshark/

[fishinonthebrain]

Rick do you have a link to his thread since it was so long ago?  CM's search function is not very reliable.

Bunch of stuff happening on this rebuild to learn from.
http://www.classicmako.com/projects/xshark/

I have been looking back in CM threads and warthog has a post dated early last year so it has not been too long since he has posted.

Thanks Rick I will check out the link.

[RickK]

Wart's not real verbose in that "article" but you can learn a lot just "watching" the progress.  Guess the boat is for sale now, maybe already sold since he's rebuilding another already. (a Parker)

This leads me into a little derail (and most know I'm not into this - some of us are "experts" at this)
I grew up in the infancy of the World Wide Web (http://www....) - building my first PC in '82 and being involved technically ever since thankfully.  I am still amazed everyday at the info that is available on the web.  I look at my kids and grandkids and it's amazing that they are so "a part" of the www and linked into it so deeply that if it doesn't exist they don't know how to exist. (I sense myself in this but won't admit it).
Schools have been and are now exploiting the wireless wonders, "issuing" web capable devices and communities are deploying the new "40 mile wireless" wifi.  (This is the new freqs freed up when they did away with analog TV.)

My buddy Ed (65) is not "connected" except he has a "dumb" cell connection - old flip phone (not trying to insult those of you that have the same) - no internet connection.  I tell him he is missing so much info and he blows me off saying "I don't need that stuff".  I can't understand how he can't "want" to be connected - he's a football fanatic, a fishing fanatic, wannabee mechanic, etc. He is blissfully happy being disconnected - me, I'm twitching if I lose cell service so I lose business email - especially when I travel abroad.
I look at the info I've been able to discover on the recent endeavor into vacuum bagging and I'm not sure I could ever read all the results I found - I'm just flabbergasted at this while the younger generations (some not even knowing life without connectivity) look at me like "duhhhh, you didn't know that".
End of derail. (still trying to get through the 508,000 results on the search I did   )

[seabob4]

Rick, you would probably agree with me that a lot has to do with...fear and insecurity.  It's an inner thing, and it can't be explained.  Those who wish to broaden their minds, expand their areas of expertise, to learn new things so that they may be better able to do what they want, to help others with their knowledge...those people are not afraid of things, not afraid of failure somewhere down the line.  Failure goes with the knowledge territory, as, if we are smart, we learn from our mistakes.  If we don't try something new, we won't fail, and all is right with the world...like your friend Ed.

My Dad is 83, my Mom is 81.  Both are very computer literate, I absolutely love when either of them encounters a "problem" (which they used to call me up to come over and "fix" them), and one or the other emails me and says they figured out what was going on and all is well.


So obviously, it has nothing to do with age.  It has EVERYTHING to do with learning, and all that goes along with it...

End of my part of the de-railment...

[RickK]

In Ed's situation it's a monetary issue and since "he's never had it" he doesn't know the value (or what he's missing) and doesn't want to pay for it.

[seabob4]

What Ed says and what's the real deal are 2 different things...

[Callyb]

Rick, how thick is the lamination on your seat? It looks super stout, and it looks great :!:

That hatch is looking good too!

[RickK]

Rick, how thick is the lamination on your seat? It looks super stout, and it looks great :!:

That hatch is looking good too!

The seat is backed with the same Plascore (3/4") that I made the sole out of. with a layer of 1708 on each side it comes in at about 7/8".  That baby is stout (and heavy).  Amazing how it went from just a couple pounds to what it is now  
Hatches are about ready for the final layer of cloth.

Started measuring up everything and making circles and squares on the console and then I dug out my tach and fuel gauge and the tach was full of water    Not sure how that got in there, it was inside a cooler.  
Just ordered a Teleflex driftwood tach and fuel gauge.

Going to start cutting holes today  8)

[fishinonthebrain]

Rick, how thick is the lamination on your seat? It looks super stout, and it looks great :!:

That hatch is looking good too!

The seat is backed with the same Plascore (3/4") that I made the sole out of. with a layer of 1708 on each side it comes in at about 7/8".  That baby is stout (and heavy).  Amazing how it went from just a couple pounds to what it is now  
Hatches are about ready for the final layer of cloth.

Started measuring up everything and making circles and squares on the console and then I dug out my tach and fuel gauge and the tach was full of water    Not sure how that got in there, it was inside a cooler.  
Just ordered a Teleflex driftwood tach and fuel gauge.

Going to start cutting holes today  8)

What a good excuse to buy a new set of gauges.

[RickK]

What a good excuse to buy a new set of gauges.

B.O.A.T.  

I made a "ledge" for the bilge access with 3 layers of 1708 - 6", 4" and 3" with epoxy and after a week (at least 3 days   ) it hardened up enough to stick down around to the bilge access cutout.
My wife helped flip the sole (even lighter now   ) and then I troweled thickened epoxy edge to edge, corner to corner and placed the "ledge" and then put some blocks on the "ledge" to stick it down.


The next morning - it has full coverage of epoxy between the "ledge" and the bottom of the sole so I'm thinking even if I put on a few pounds and stood right on the hatch it still wouldn't budge. What I'm getting at is I think adding more lams to it to try to secure it to the sole is worthless.

[RickK]

As mentioned earlier I started cutting holes in the console - making it lighter one cut at a time  
This is how thick the glass is on the face of the console (left 1/4" circle) and on the top where the helm mounts. Also the outside of the new addition is the same as the top  


I cut the holes, dry fit them and then coated the exposed wood with epoxy resin.