Infusion Plan

Discussion in 'Fiberglass and Composite Boat Building' started by jorgepease, Jun 4, 2012.

  1. Tungsten
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    About 17 minutes in ,feed clamped used the resin that I thought it would so should all be wet out.
    Seamed to feed more from the outer edges hard to tell have to weight and see.

    This is 4 layers of foam one 12 mm and 3 6mm with 600 glass each side
     

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    Cool !!

    as long as you have that perf material it will come apart. The holes you drilled are very big compared to the holes in my material. That may be why your getting a regular resin front instead of the half tone pattern.
     
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    Holes are 3/32 they just look big as the pieces are only 9x16"

    and I hope you don't mind me adding this to your thread? seamed like the best place for it.
     
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    oh okay, I wonder why you didn't get the dot pattern lol... anyway, no I don't mind at all, this thread is chock full of great info and this just makes it better!! Looks like the stacked panel infusion could be quite a time saver!
     
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    made a little headway on mine this weekend. Rigging a boat is all new to me, it's slow going but I finally got to see how she floats.

    The Yamaha 70 looks like a tiny toy on her

    Starting with drilling holes in Transom - I forgot the drill fixture in Miami so I made this little rig and it worked perfectly.
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    Then I proceeded to hang the jackplate on backwards
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    Turned it around but now I was 1.5 inch higher than I wanted … worst case I will take her down again and give it another go
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    My little drill jig worked well, holes lined up with backer plate perfectly.
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    putting her in the water :) … she is long
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    A view from the stern
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    and finally in the water, she floats beautiful
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    another view … can't believe how stable she is, not tipsy at all
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    It looks like less but I put a tape to it, she draws 3.5 inches of water and still about 200lbs of gear and with gas to go. but that is toward the center.
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    Here is a close up, the cavitation plate is 1.5 in under the very top of the tunnel. When fully raised I should only have about 2.5 inches of prop under the boat.
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    Spent the rest of the time drilling holes to route wiring and reading up on how to do it all
     
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    Happy days mate, almost at the end of the journey ... Time to start having some fun instead of working between work ;)
     
  7. Tungsten
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    Congrats Jorge!You'll have to name her.
     
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    f u n ... I know that word, give me a sec to remember what it means! )

    I was thinking to name her GI Jo ..rge lol
     
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    May 2012 was such a long time ago, but now shes wet! congratulations Jorge.
     
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    Yeah, too long, Im worn out!!

    Wait on the congrats till I post a video putting her through the paces! Probably a couple more weekends to go ... I hope.
     
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    Bagged pulled off .looks like a brick of foam and goo. Had a little bridging and with the foam not exactly lined up on the edges it was filled with epoxy. Started to pull the peel ply off but was a lost cause. Was much easier to just cut a few mm off the edges with the skill saw.You could see with a keen eye the 2 layers of peel ply and the plastic between so with a little force with a putty knife the layers separated easily.
     

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    Can't figure out how to get more then one photo on a post with I phone so have to do a Couple I guess.Glass was fully wet out no dry spots
     

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    So I guess it was a success. Only thing is your stuck with a peel plied surface on both sides. Will have to look at the other way groped mentioned to get the shinny surface.
     

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    Peel ply finish isn't too bad mate, I'd probably do most panels with peel ply finish as it saves abrading it before paint prep. I spray a high build 2 part epoxy primer onto the peel ply surface , once cured you do your first bit of sanding. High build sands very easily so it's not much fuss. Repeat until your surface is ready for the 2 part polyurethane finish coat.

    What I'm saying is, the peel ply surface is actually a preferable thing in most instances. There is no reason you can't put a plastic film between panels with no peel ply provided you have a flow medium in each panel rather than relying on vertical flow, as obviously you won't get vertical flow with non perforated plastic film between each panel in the stack.

    Now all you need to do, is make a huge infusion table, repeat what you did already but on a much larger scale, mix up a 55gal drum for each infusion, then after a couple of 1 shot infusions, build a 50ft catamaran or some such... KISS eat your heart out :p
     

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    If you hand drill the holes through all layers seems like you could rotate every other layer to un-line up the holes if you are concerned about creating a vertical racetrack.

    Just an untested thought.
     
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