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Re: S&G: commercial hatches in a merganser
By:Mike Scarborough
Date: 7/7/2003, 2:54 pm
In Response To: S&G: commercial hatches in a merganser (Kameron Decker Harris)

I've done that with a CLC cambered deck. What I did was make a sort of wooden bowl by stacking rings of 1/2 inch plywood on top of each other. Larger rings at the top, smaller at the bottom. The bottom of the bowl was a piece of 1/4 inch ply. I epoxied the rim of the VCP hatch to the bottom of the bowl and cut an opening in the bottom. The top of the bowl I shaped, by trial and error, to fit the underside of the deck. Then I glued the whole thing in place. At some point, once I had the shapes about right, I sanded away the stair steps created by the 1/2 ply on the inside of the bowl.

Is that clear as mud?

Messages In This Thread

S&G: commercial hatches in a merganser
Kameron Decker Harris -- 7/7/2003, 11:54 am
Re: S&G: commercial hatches in a merganser
LeeG -- 7/7/2003, 3:11 pm
Re: S&G: commercial hatches in a merganser
Mike Scarborough -- 7/7/2003, 2:54 pm
Re: S&G: commercial hatches in a merganser
Kameron Decker Harris -- 7/8/2003, 10:31 am
Re: S&G: commercial hatches in a merganser
Mike Scarborough -- 7/8/2003, 11:44 am