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Out side seam work
By:Russ
Date: 1/21/2001, 9:31 pm
In Response To: Dow Pinning the Haul to the Deck (John Monfoe)

John,
I did a similar thing on first GE using wooden tabs to hold her together at the seams while I faired. In the end, It was a wasted step. When I moved the tabs I still had a little work to do. In the end it was just better to seam the inside, run a ROS down the out side and then seam the out side. The inside seam glassing gives you a solid coninuous surface to work against verses the iteritives point strength of a doweled job with changing curves in between. Additionally, It has you fairing once rather then twice. The savings in time is a lot and the appearnace is the same. Ben der don dat Won't dood it agin :)
!RUSS

Hope it helps
!RUSS

Messages In This Thread

Dow Pinning the Haul to the Deck
John Monfoe -- 1/20/2001, 6:50 am
Out side seam work
Russ -- 1/21/2001, 9:31 pm
Re: Out side seam work
John Monfoe -- 1/22/2001, 6:45 am
Re: Dow Pinning the Haul to the Deck
Rehd -- 1/20/2001, 1:09 pm
Re: Dow Pinning the Haul to the Deck
John Monfoe -- 1/21/2001, 2:51 am
Re: Dow Pinning the Haul to the Deck
Max -- 1/21/2001, 9:24 am
Re: Dow Pinning the Haul to the Deck
Roy Morford -- 1/20/2001, 12:47 pm