I've figures out the aluminium brazing. I was using a steel wire brush to clean the aluminium. It was adding contaminents to the pieces. Just because it's regular steel.
I purchased a Stainless Steel wire brush today.
Now it works! Well too.
I decided to make little sail boat shapes because I it more represented what I'm going to do. (Stand a round piece on a flat piece.) It worked great! I can't break the braze. And I tried!
I sanded down the areas that I'm repairing he gel-coat on the boat. I had used the grinder to clean out the crack down to the regular glass. I have seen on youtube that it is best to feather the gel-coat out. So I feathered all the cracks and spots. The pic looks huge because it was two cracks running parallel about 1/2" apart that I made one repair.
I was going to just use white gel-coat on the grey areas but after watching some youtube gel-coat matching videos... I'll make it grey. Hopefully similar to the grey on the boat...
Note: You will notice blue gel-coat above the rub rail.... Hmm no blue pieces up there... I think they just used what they had left over from making the lines on the next boat on the line. Hey may as well use the material if you have it mixed already. I did that with each layer of glass on the mold for the motor bracket. One more coat of glass and it's good to pull apart and put into production.
My intent was to gel-coat after supper today but we had thunderstorms come through. (The weather here has been the worst for doing anything outside that needs to be dry for at least a day.)
So yesterday I planted grass seed on the bare spots on the lawn! Yes that will stop the rain. It hasn't failed me in the past.
I hope to pick up a carb kit for my 8hp Merc and install it in the next few days. (It can be done inside the garage.)
I finished the final coats on the dollar store wire brush. (The one that was contaminating the aluminium...) It looks great! You could hardly tell I paid $1 for it. Unless you know wire brushes... Then it's a pig with lipstick. Pretty though.
I also got the last coats of varnish on the tiller handle and step. They look great too.
I'm planning to prep the holes in the cabin top for butyl tape tomorrow. I can do that in the rain. All the hardware goes back on Monday.
I'm changing the line layout a bit.
I am going to put the main and jib halyards and the DB line on the Port side into a triple clutch. And put a 4 line turning block up further on the deck. The furler line will be on the Port side but go to a smaller cam cleat. The boats won't come with spinnakers so no need for that hardware.
I just want things to be simply laid out and labelled. The less stuff on deck the better.
I worked on the laz hatch today too! I ground it down ans sanded it down to regel-coat it and put it back in the mold. I had hoped to do that today to...
I put the new stickers on the other car. (Hers. The one I blew up last sept... and rebuilt last fall. Link:
http://saabworld.net/f9/rebuild-my-2-3t-b235l-29151/?highlight=rebuild+2.3T ) I got the little sail boat stickers on so guys stop asking me ware I fish out of...