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| Sanded.... |
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| ....and primed. |
Got a bit done this weekend, things are starting to trundle along. Firstly, the Parsons gearbox is definitely 1:1 as I'd hoped, and looks like it will mate directly to the 100E motor. Am waiting on an oil pump so that the engine can come off the stand then we'll see. The input shaft is pretty flogged, I might give the whole gearbox to Moon's or somewhere, as it's obviously done many hours and will have earnt a birthday.
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| Split cross-floor removed |
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| Engine beds ousted! |
Yesterday finally got a coat of primer inside the aft section planking and the area under the foredeck. Then spent a couple of hours notching out four more cracked ribs aft. This morning made oak patches for five sections and those are ready to go in. Removed the 3rd floor (from aft) as it is split quite a way across, and removed the engine beds too. These are the wrong profile, width, are notched over floors that will be removed (non original) and are not parallel! Have tried unbolting these before, but as there's nothing to grip under the boat the whole bolt revolves and various brainwaves had all failed to produce a result, unless the result was turning the bolt... I finally realised that as the beds were to be scrapped, why was I trying to find a tidy solution when I could just butcher them and put vice grips on the bolt - voila!
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