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Finally I had time to work on my boat. Weather was great for working outside, so I pushed my limits and finished glassing the subframe.






First day I was filling the voids and making nice radiused beams. I was using talc as the thickener for resin this time: was kinda disappointed. Compare to cabosil, it's terrible!!! (It's cheap, though: $40 for 50Lb) Hard to get the right ratio, problematic to make it smooth, really fragile... I had to ad in to mix some wood dust and chips - it helped a bit to hold mixture together. Anyway, I finished with that on Thursday, on Friday early in the morning I started glassing. With all fiberglass precut the process was really straight forward: mix new batch of resin, glass, mix again, etc... It was a bit too hot in the afternoon: boat warmed up and the resin working time shortened to 5 minutes! I just started to use smaller batches of resin.
Anyway, big job is done. Next time I will fix all the air bubbles and dry spots and install drainage pipes. After that I could move to the next step and start work with the floor.
Here are some pictures:

















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Middle of June already... I slowed down with my main projects: just got lazy... I was trying to find excuses, but I don't have any:)Somehow I switched my attention to paintball again. Was working with my main marker - Phantom. Got the under cocking kit for it from Rainman 229, but I couldn't stay the quality of it, so I had to turn the bushing for the handle, mill the mounting block, etc. It's getting there, but still not done. Today I am going to finish this small project and work on the Elan's frame. Just want to cut and weld in the patches. In the evening I am going to the cottage. It suppose to be nice outside for next two days, so I can work with my boat.
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