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The Shape Shack / Re: R&R of my Shaping Stands

« on: June 14, 2020, 09:33:31 AM »

Temps have been unusual here too. Some days barely 70, others 90.
The repaired rails turned out better than expected. Filled in a couple spots and around the handle last night.
Surprised at how the carbon tows spread out under the glass while laminating, usually I do a separate patch as a cut lap so I have never seen this. Getting excited to open up plugs and such. The handle could have been better: no template, feehand rout, cloth pulled away a little, tape leaked. So glad it's getting painted...

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SUP General / Re: My GenRation like to Slo-Dance

« on: June 14, 2020, 07:22:24 AM »

Very Nice!

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SUP General / Re: Image upload

« on: June 14, 2020, 07:19:18 AM »

Tried loading 3 JPEG's, 300-500 kB each this morning, no dice.
Firefox 77.0.1 (64-bit) and Win10


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The Shape Shack / Re: R&R of my Shaping Stands

« on: June 13, 2020, 02:14:24 PM »

Lamination of top complete 6oz glass x 6oz CF patch, one of my last pieces of CF.
Resin went off nice and slow giving me time to work and I had 3.5 [110g] extra to donate to the repair-the-garage-floor-pukas project. Glad the board will be painted too...

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The Shape Shack / Re: R&R of my Shaping Stands

« on: June 13, 2020, 07:44:39 AM »

My 5 gallon stands seem to to pretty good. One of the buckets on one set self-destructed, concrete is ok but harder to move and level. We get 100's of buckets w/o handles at work. It would be a simple matter of resetting it but it's low on the list as it is holding up the 80 pound 1939 Tom Blake 13'9" replica rounded bottom board I made a few years ago.
So waiting out some rain, getting ready to glass once temps reach 70 in the garage. The stands from the beginning of this thread are too wide to tuck the rails.
I came up with this solution that somewhat justifies the plethora of scrap wood I keep around the house. The extra height will be nice for rails too.
I will probably wrap these in plastic to try to keep the pads on the stands resin-free. I got some on one corner last week and it made a hard little knot on the pad.
If I cannot decide whether to use carbon fiber or woven fiberglass for the standing area, would that make me carbon neutral...?

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The Shape Shack / Re: R&R of my Shaping Stands

« on: June 06, 2020, 03:41:27 PM »

Opened up the can of resin, also ignored since 2018. There was a puck about one inch (2.5cm) thick of crystailzed resin on the bottom. Googled and found a video from System Three, which paralleled the info given to me verbally by another manufacturer years ago. 120-140 F (50-60 C) water bath until it clears. Just using hot tap water was not enough, once it was on the campstove and maintained near 140 F it cleared right up.

Current plan is to tape, lam, and open the fin boxes both for cloth and fill coat. Leash plugs still to be covered and sanded open. I usually cut the fabric with an 'x' over the plug so it does not lift. Then I will tape a last time before it goes to paint.

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The Shape Shack / Re: R&R of my Shaping Stands

« on: June 06, 2020, 10:58:28 AM »

Looking for ideas on how to handle the fin boxes and leash plugs.
Leash plugs are still closed, I can glass over and sand open.
Fin boxes went in pre-glass with HD inserts and were opened up.
Still one layer of 6oz+deck patch to go.
Tape and open fin boxes after each step or tape and leave until after fill coat?
Board is getting painted afterwards, forgot to mention this.

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The Shape Shack / Re: Works of Primitive Man

« on: June 06, 2020, 09:31:32 AM »

Truth be told I 'googled' it from a sheet music site. I am not that literate either.
Using the simple past tense 'spake' seems pretty old-fashioned but I can see it coming from a translation.
I would not worry Bill. We all know you are more fun than the people who'd be trying to bust your chops for that.

I tried making a handle like that too from a mold but always has some sort of failure: too much vacuum sucking out the resin or pinholes in the corners. Just threw the mold out a couple weeks ago.

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SUP General / Re: Image upload

« on: June 06, 2020, 06:49:46 AM »

Similar issue here, struggling to load 200-500 kB pictures to a thread. Thought it was because the thread was old but same error message as Phils below. Win10 and latest Firefox.

Thanks for the efforts troubleshooting this, we all appreciate it!

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The Shape Shack / Re: R&R of my Shaping Stands

« on: June 06, 2020, 06:40:24 AM »

I like the stands SJ! It took me one or two tries to get mine just right too.

We are back on this board after a 2 year hiatus.
Once image loading is back online I'll post some pics.

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The Shape Shack / Re: Works of Primitive Man

« on: June 06, 2020, 05:57:37 AM »

Does anyone else go right to the opening scenes and musical theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey when they read the title of the thread? Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, ta...da...da...TA DA! OK, for the musically literate it's really Richard Strauss's Also sprach Zarathustra  but no one has accused me of that lately.

I love it Bill. Composite work next to aluminum tape. Who says you can't have both?

Working on my first board in almost two years and forgetting what goes where and when. At least I have a motivated helper in my daughter who desperately wants it finished now that we have good weather.

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The Shape Shack / Re: Sand thru’s / burn thru’s, what can I get away with?

« on: June 05, 2020, 07:52:23 PM »

You have to sand boards a lot to get really good at it. I don't, so I'm not. 

TD, Word.

SC, if you want something to chuckle about, I have that one board from about 2 years ago that I did so poorly on the rails...well long story short after 19 months of wallowing in shame and a 'fresh perspective' as my daughter decides it's hot outside and it needs to get done. We just came in from patching about 20 different skippers and sand-throughs. Awesome to have her help and her playlist and someone to motivate me to complete it. Maybe I'll bump the thread...

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The Shape Shack / Re: Sand thru’s / burn thru’s, what can I get away with?

« on: May 08, 2020, 06:39:54 AM »

SC, I have a 'friend' that sands through rails too.  He's half done with a board for his daughter...

DW, Is ultrasonic leak testing something that people with liberal arts degrees can do or ? Gizmo + procedure?

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The Shape Shack / Re: Boardwork

« on: May 08, 2020, 06:36:16 AM »

Thanks!

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The Shape Shack / Re: New hotwire rail and bevel cutter

« on: May 02, 2020, 05:45:00 AM »

Blackeye, here are the tools I could find this morning.

PS is a borrowed variac which comes with a set of warnings about non-isolated AC voltage. If I used these more often I would add an isolation transformer and a remote on/off switch or I would switch to a DC lab supply. All the tools have insulated connectors to a shared extension cord.

I forget the gauge of wire I am using, something thin the 20's...26?
I use the wire and calcs from https://jacobs-online.biz/

The bigger bows were made first, starting with the PVC one.
Then I went with the all scrap wood approach. I have though about re-doing them with CAD-drawn and CNC-cut pieces but that has yet to happen...

The Daum* hot wire rail cutter and my other bevel tool are shown.
The Daum* comes apart and the middle C-shaped part get re-configured to make cuts at 90 degrees such as starting with an EPS sled cut and cutting the plan shape rail straight down from the deck or bottom.

The one with the guitar tuners is just a 45 degree chamfer tool. Anything longer than a few inches of wire and I use a spring of some sort. The ones off the cheap architects' lamps are pretty good. A collection of screw eyes, eye bolts, and wing nuts helps for putting these together. I am only making straight cuts, nothing with a formed wire.

*Dave Daum has a router with an attachment for doing the same/simiimar thing (cutting a bevel into a rail indexed to bottom) so that is why I call it that. With some googling and digging a person can find a picture of his device.