penfold
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Given the choice of having interscrew or sex bolt in my google search history I'll take the former. 
Boat Jobs You Don't want to do Again
- Thread starter Stemar
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James W
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I've just spent days laminating foam beams under the deck, jammed in the forepeak of a 29 footer with epoxy dripping all over me. Laying on my back, wetting out 5 layers of glass per beam with a constant dab dab motion with my brush to push out the air as I added the epoxy was no fun at all.
fisherman
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That's why you wet out the mat on a board away from the job, no air, no drips.
James W
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Not in this case, unfortunately. I was working directly above my head. It would have (and did when testing) fallen down with the weight of the resin.
penfold
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Sounds horrid; I'd have tried to vac bag it, but that has problems of its own.
James W
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It’s done now, but never again.
geem
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Paint the area you are laminating with epoxy and wait for it to go slightly tacky. The wetted out glass then sticks a little easier. You want absolute minimum epoxy. Just enough to fully wet the glass but no more
LittleSister
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mjcoon
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I think I was just older than you when I had my op in 2015. Did you see the 2 hour Channel 5 programme on an aortic valve repair? Mine was of the mitral valve but I imagine it was similar; fascinating...
Stemar
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So was mine, but that does sound interesting. I'll have to look it up.
Poey50
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Painting the deck with two-pack and Kiwigrip under a deck tent in the worst spring weather of a decade.
Grinding GRP flat two feet from my face with head and shoulders stuffed into a lazarette squeezing past the rudder tube.
Fitting a new through-hull between tides and discovering I had the wrong sized hole saw - after drilling!
Grinding GRP flat two feet from my face with head and shoulders stuffed into a lazarette squeezing past the rudder tube.
Fitting a new through-hull between tides and discovering I had the wrong sized hole saw - after drilling!
mjcoon
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I think it was transmitted on13 November 2018 and though I have a copy in my PVR it is not easy to extract (intentionally, I expect), and not visible on Channel 5 catchup.
Stemar
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That's a shame - that was where I was going to look. Ah well, I'll live if I have to go without, which is more than can be said for the operation.
Rhylsailer99
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scraping and sanding my entire hull back to original gelcoat. Even with wearing high quality full face masks, the antifould finds a way and i could smell it in my nose for a good while afterwards .
fisherman
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I fitted a GRP boat in the attached garage in 1978. The smell of resin got into every last thing in the house, worse than tobacco smoke.
Nina Lucia
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Stemar
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I kept an old cushion for jobs like that that entailed lying on the engine.
Mudisox
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Replacing headlining.
xyachtdave
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Great thread!
Last year I joined the well trodden ‘never again’ pathway that leads away from teak deck removal!
I do refurbishment/construction work and am used to suffering at work sometimes, this was another level of pain altogether.
Last year I joined the well trodden ‘never again’ pathway that leads away from teak deck removal!
I do refurbishment/construction work and am used to suffering at work sometimes, this was another level of pain altogether.
LONG_KEELER
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I have a winter boiler suit that is well padded. One of my better investments. You deserve it.
