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Rebuild Phase
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Bracing using the stringers and wedges
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It was here when things came acropper. As this is a big job my resin pot was full to the top plus I was hurrying and when I lifted my brush out of the pot it flicked a blob of resin right into my eye. For those that don't know, polyester resin is not nice stuff, but nowhere as bad as the hardener which is Methyl Ethyl Ketone Peroxide. In summary getting this in your eyes is BAD. Really bad, even at 1% dilution. The millisecond I felt it hit my eye I straight away knew I was in trouble. A second later the burning started and I dropped everything and dashed over to my swimming pool and laid down on my stomach and dunked my head in the water. I used my finger to rub my eye, including under the eyelid (fortunately I've played in the front row for 25 years and had a few fingers in my eyes so it's not an altogether unfamiliar sensation!). I came up for breath and there was still some stinging so I dunked my head again. This time the stinging had stopped. Due to my quick action (and a pool being 5m away) I was luck enough to be ok so I dried myself on a rag and jumpoed back into the boat and kept going.
Fiberglass mat will soak up an amazing amount of resin, it's like a sponge and I kept slopping it in as you want the glass to be as thick as possible in this instance. When the glass was saturated I carefully maneouvered the transom timber and dropped it in place.
Now for clamping and bracing. I started by tapping the top of the transom with a happer to ensure it was bedded right in. You can see bythe pictures, the braces inside the boat I cut at an angle on one end and I was able to hammer in blocks between the braces and the stringer ends whech gets a really solid result.
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