It has been just too cold, too wet, and too busy to work on the Pygmy Pinguino kayak for a long time. But truth be told, I've also been busy on my latest wooden IOM RC sailboat!
But today I was able to get back to it by fiberglassing the first sides of the bulkheads and the hatch lips.
How do you like my new logo that I had printed on rice paper? :-P
See those holes near the top of each bulkhead? They are for pressure relief. After I fiberglass both sides I will drill a very small 1/16" or smaller hole through the cured epoxy to allow air to pass through. The hatches tend to work pretty well and can actually get sucked down quite firmly in warm weather so that you must pry the hatches up with a screwdriver and potentially damage the hull or hatch. The small holes let you avoid that.
The bulkhead holes don't need to be as large as mine... I just happened to have that size Forstner bit in my drill press and was too lazy to chuck a smaller one. :-P You only need to be able to drill a smaller hole through just epoxy and not expose wood.
More later as I get back into it.
Cheers!
But today I was able to get back to it by fiberglassing the first sides of the bulkheads and the hatch lips.
How do you like my new logo that I had printed on rice paper? :-P
See those holes near the top of each bulkhead? They are for pressure relief. After I fiberglass both sides I will drill a very small 1/16" or smaller hole through the cured epoxy to allow air to pass through. The hatches tend to work pretty well and can actually get sucked down quite firmly in warm weather so that you must pry the hatches up with a screwdriver and potentially damage the hull or hatch. The small holes let you avoid that.
The bulkhead holes don't need to be as large as mine... I just happened to have that size Forstner bit in my drill press and was too lazy to chuck a smaller one. :-P You only need to be able to drill a smaller hole through just epoxy and not expose wood.
More later as I get back into it.
Cheers!
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