1973 196 rebuild question

[Duffy1470]

Flipped cap over. It's a mess. Not sure what I'm going to find under the Grey paint.

[Duffy1470]

Also been working on console. Hard to take pics of the inside of this thing. I will say this, there's no way to recore any part of the console without taking it out of the boat. I will try to take some pics

[Duffy1470]

Console innards. Cored the top of console with Coosa. Its 1/4 inch plus. Not really sure. Other pics speak for themselves





Cap work. How rough is too rough. Trying to figure out if it is possibly "totaled"

[Duffy1470]

Well, I can't say I'm proud of myself. I cut the front of the console off to make room for a cooler. What the hell am I doing? Much of boat rebuilding has been like that. Somehow it's fun?

[dbiscayne]

are you gonna put some kind of shelf inside, above the cooler, and maybe a wall to separate that cooler space from the rest of the inner console? Seems like if you don't you'll get all kinds of spray on your wiring & everything else in there. But also consider being able to drain that new space you created,  I did something similar and it would always get pretty nasty in there cause I didn't provide a good way to get the water out.

[Duffy1470]

My plan is to use the pieces I cut off in some fashion. See below

Probably not this one


Leaning towards this one


The geometry on the cut off pieces is the same so why not take advantage of that and not recreate the wheel. The cooler is going to be a yeti 45 or 65 that sits in front of the console. Again, why recreate the wheel. In the next picture use your imagination in regards to altering the existing hatch to fit.

[Duffy1470]

What does it mean that my post is brown and has a pin in it?

[RickK]

Not sure I understand the question...

[Duffy1470]

I should have included this with my question. My apologies. The thread, or whatever it's called, is brown. It did not used to be like this. I don't really care one way or another, just curious.

[dbiscayne]

Console makes sense now - I thought you were going to have an opening into the front to put the cooler in the console. For the upper opening, you don't have any of those tackle storage shelves laying around do you?

[Duffy1470]

The pictures are key. Language does a poor describing most of boat rebuilding.  As far as a tackle shelf, are you referring to the shelf I ripped out of the console that other aquas i am familiar with have in the console? If yes, I have an idea for that. I will follow up with pics but for now I will try to use my words. The piece I cut off that ended up being two pieces have a lip at the top (and a flange at the bottom for miunting to deck) that the seat/hatch sat on. I was contemplating gluing or glassing those inside the console to provide a rest or support for a shelf.

[dbiscayne]

something like this to fill part of the big hole in the upper half.

[RickK]

I think you made it a sticky topic and that changed the color. I "unstuck" it.

I should have included this with my question. My apologies. The thread, or whatever it's called, is brown. It did not used to be like this. I don't really care one way or another, just curious.

[Duffy1470]

Was talking about adding a lip on the inside of console. Below are pics illustrating the idea



Cut off at transition to flange (haven't done that in any of the pics yet)

[Duffy1470]

Not necessarily related to above pics but what I am doing to redo the console. Have to glass it all together now