Author Topic: 1973 196 rebuild question (Read 20814 times)

Duffy1470 · « **Reply #615 on:** March 28, 2025, 06:24:40 PM »

Glassed other side, same schedule.

Ulysses485 · « **Reply #616 on:** March 30, 2025, 11:15:50 PM »

Looks good Duffy! Are you going to use honeycomb board as the coring material? I am curious how your experience is with it as I don't have much experience with it, YET. Curious to hear your experience and thoughts. Thanks for sharing!!

Duffy1470 · « **Reply #617 on:** March 31, 2025, 08:53:14 AM »

U, the honey comb is light, inexpensive, and glasses into super stiff, zero deflection panels. Finishing the edges of this stuff is not something I have experience with, looks like a pain in the rear. Rick did a great looking, well documented job on his build, so it can be done. My strategy has been to terminate the ends in a major glass area, like deck to hull where no one will see the edges.

Ulysses485 · « **Reply #618 on:** March 31, 2025, 11:59:17 AM »

I should have been more clear...I have 9- 4x8 - 1'' Panels of Honeycomb (scrimmed backing, no glass) that I will use for decking materials. I glassed up one large panel of it so far and glassed it into the hull for a fuel tank subfloor in my 240 project. I am curious how your experience will be using it in a mold application. I would like to use it that way to build hatches, hatch gutters etc. in a
melamine mold. Not sure how to do it other than laying up the panels first with at least one layer of 1708 and sanding them down before setting them into the mold with some kind of thickened resin, putty compound, or 1.5oz chop strand mat.

Duffy1470 · « **Reply #619 on:** March 31, 2025, 06:34:21 PM »

I already laid the deck down on the melamine. I trimmed it up today and will be glassing/bonding the honeycomb to it this week. I plan on putting a layer of 1708 or 2 over that. I can't answer your question yet but it should be soon.

Duffy1470 · « **Reply #620 on:** **Today** at 07:00:35 AM »

U, I lied about coring with honeycomb. I forgot about this piece from a few weeks back. The comb cores great. The pics are of the shelf I added inside the console anD the comb will receive the end of an umbrella. My skills are limited, however this piece came out great so the product, comb, is easy to work with. Used a combo of matte and 1708.