Well I am getting the shop finally organized enough to start the next project. The boat I bought that I thought was going to a flip job is now a full scale restore to original condition. Lots of sanding in my future and prepping and painting. Found out the boat was not the model I thought it was it is a very rare one they didn't make many of them.
So I am dug into the old tin boat and discovered the aluminum bow cover is an aluminum skin over plywood. Got me thinking that I could put a mahogany bow cover in wood over tin and make it a one of a kind obviously selling it is no longer an option going to add it to the collection, I need to add a pole barn for toy storage.
Ever have a hobby or a project that just seems to fight you every step of the way? Trying to get the front bench seat out and the screws go thru and attach to rusted nuts that you can't get to with a normal vice grip heck some you have to do by feel. Best part is the 1957 hardware selection evidently the phillips head was not invented yet. Have to use an impact driver to get it apart.
If you are replacing the hardware, I just use a angle grinder with a thin wheel. I just cut the head off the bolt and punch the rest out. Alot faster then trying to wench out old rusted bolts.
Sota I feel your pain. All I can add to Holt's post is, kroil (or another pen oil) and occasionally heat... However an open flame probably is not the best for a seat...But for a tapered axle or removing a drum on say an old desoto (ask me how I know), it's just the cure.
Ohh that'll be fun. I miss working on heavy equipment. I was fortunate as a kid and got into the shop of a local gas pipeline company. Got to learn all kinds of good stuff as a boy after school everyday and every weekend. Few years later I was the yougest crew leader of the company I worked for putting in fiber. Now I'm settled into a career as a corrections officer but miss working outside. Sent from my SM-G930V using Bowhunting.com Forums mobile app
Got the motor off last night getting close figure in 3 weeks I will start painting and putting it back together.
So I have been calling around to different lumberyards trying to find the wood for the gunnels. I need white oak 1x2 14 feet long in clear lumber, no knots because the wood will have to be bent. I called even the high end lumber yards trying to find some with no luck. I finally found a logger that mills lumber as well first I was giddy that the guy told me no problem he has what I am looking for, I braced for it when I asked how much, I even asked the guy to verify he is going to charge me $3 apiece I love it when a plan comes together in a cost effective manor.
Yup sure do. I heat my house with a Hardy outdoor wood furnace with propane back up. It circulates hot water through a heat exchanger in my furnace just like a car heater. I have a 30 x 48 pole building semi insulated that im wanting to heat. I have installed a used train furnace in it I kept from a house fire I had in 2005, lost the house but the furnace was in the basement and ok. Im currently adding another pump on the system a heat exchanger and trenching in another set of lines. will be done toward the end of the heating season but good to go next winter. Im also putting in a metal ceiling to hold the heat down. I had hail damage on the pole barn roof about three years ago, they replaced it and I kept the tin roof. that's what im using for the ceiling tin!
Crap, I think I have to be saved from myself. I have a deal in place to sell the first tin boat I redid, I love that boat. The deal I to sell it is to the guy I got the boat from, he regrets getting rid of it and I know the boat is going to a good home. I found a Thompson Lapside wood boat. Normally I would talk myself out of even looking at a wood boat but I have a soft spot for the lapside construction.
"The things you own, end up owning you." - Tyler Durden I have 3 cars, a 28' camper, and a 2 car garage- and an understanding wife and generous friends. I'd love to get into fixing up old bikes or something similar, but just do not have the space. You're doing some cool stuff.
Attend as many indoor tournaments and 3D shoots as possible during the winter, but besides archery...I have an indoor vegetable garden and grow rooms that take up most of my spare time.
I also decided to not to get the wood boat, 1 I do not know what to look for structurally as far as problems with a wood boat. 2 my daughter really likes the boat I was going to sell, I did not know that she felt that way about the boat so the boat stays.
I grow everything from tomatoes, cucumbers, slaw, arugula, micro greens, beans, peppers, chili's, green onions, beets, and just about anything else I can fit into a 10 gallon grow bucket and goes well with Venison
Well I got talked into not painting the upper 1/3rd of the boat on the inside, originally the boat was unpainted aluminum and it was shiney when new. Well 4 hours of scotchbrighting later I am ready to start wet sanding with 2500 grit, then buffing it. I will say this Semichrome is the best metal polish I have found, amazing stuff.
After its all pretty are you going to apply a coating (urathane, epoxy or something) to keep it shiny or let it gradually oxidize?
