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Destruction Phase
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The *%$$$##* Fuel Tank
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The Cruisetank was stuck down with a ridiculous amount of Sikaflex thanks to my idiot boat mechanic and would not budge. Shannon if you felt a strange sensation last night it was me swearing at you big time!!! Even two of us holding the outboard well and pushing as hard as we could with our feet could not go close to budging it. We tried crowbars which only dinged the steel. I tried driving a timber wedge in and dinged the stainless even more.
Byron then suggested we get fishing line and use it to cut through the Sikaflex, like a ceramacist uses a string to cut clay. Basically we threaded line behind the tank, (between the tank and the deck) and Byron would pull one side then I'd pull the other. We started with 20lb braid as I thought with it's thinner diameter it would cut better but as we all know, Braid does not have good abrasion resistance and it broke pretty quickly. We reverted to Mono and was able to cut through 6" or so of Sikaflex before it wouldn't get any further.
We then repeated the same principle but this time with rope. We started with thin diameter (just a few mm) and with our third rope (around a half inch) we managed to FINALLY break the seak and get the damn thing out.
A great example of a 2 minute job taking over an hour!!!
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