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I gotta get some upholstery on there REAL QUICK to cover up those two holes, otherwise I'll never hear the end of it.

Yep Duane, if nothing else, it is solid...........and HEAVY. Dan and I flipped it the other day, and he commented his '29 steel body is actually lighter. I am just about through the 4th gallon of resin, and somehow have used up about 12-13 yards of mat, so it certainly isn't going to flex. If you have ever picked up a gallon of resin you know how heavy they are, so 4 X that has added some weight to it.

By comparison, when I got the body I could pick it up and put it on the frame by myself. He and I were both happy to set it down the other day, as it was pretty heavy to hold. It reminds me of some early production fiberglass boats. Back when they started using fiberglass they didn't know how strong it was, so they built the first generation boats as thick as they had been building wooden ones. Some of those boats were the best ones ever made. I had a 1965 Chris Craft 27 footer, and when I cut a hole in the bottom for the depth finder transducer, it was 1 inch thick down there !! But the boat was a tank, and even after years of use never had one stress crack. New boats develop stress cracks sometimes before they ever leave the dealership because they are building them so thin nowadays.

Don

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

........the end of it.
Don

Did you really mean to phrase it that way??

Don....just a thought, you may know this trick already.....when you cut the nylon webbing, hold a match or cigarette lighter to the cut ends to melt the cut fibres together.......it stops them fraying.

johnboy

Originally Posted by johnboy

Don....just a thought, you may know this trick already.....when you cut the nylon webbing, hold a match or cigarette lighter to the cut ends to melt the cut fibres together.......it stops them fraying.

johnboy

That's a good idea Johnboy. We had an electric hot knife when I worked at West Marine to cut the webbing with. It sealed the edges as you describe so they would not unravel.

I'll have to rig up something to do that on each cut I make, or just use some heat,as you suggested.

Thanks,

Don

Originally Posted by BradC

Doesn't two holers have round holes..........LOL
Brad

Not everyone is advanced as we are here in Ohio.

Don,

I like your woodwork. (4th photo) Is this a "build-by-the-numbers" kit?

Yeah, kinda like "insert tab A into slot B........." I knew when I would start glassing I wouldn't have time to be thinking what went where, so I did the number routine to speed the process. I've been trying to sand the numbers off, but now I see why they call those things permanent markers.

I even did a chart that I hung up. At my age, you need all the help you can get.

Don

Remember daughters bring home the idiot no it all boyfriend..........LOL I'm glad I had a son.
Brad

Don, I don't understand that word "borrow", GIVE I understand.

Brad, I don't worry about know it all boy's anymore, I got my concealled carry permit a couple of years ago, funny thing is it doesn't have to be concealled at home.

You guys need to stop it. I'm getting scared. I have a boy and two girls...they're just little but they outnumber us and they are already trying to outsmart us. won't be long before I'll have to keep the rifle on the table and the garage locked!

Raising Sons is easy, we understand them and can kick their butts when they get off track. Daughters are different. First of all they are women, and we know more about nuclear fusion than we do about them, and secondly, they know how to work us.

All joking aside, raising kids of either sex is a terrific experience. And sometimes we even come through it with our sanity.


Don

Originally Posted by signshop

You guys need to stop it. I'm getting scared. I have a boy and two girls...they're just little but they outnumber us and they are already trying to outsmart us. won't be long before I'll have to keep the rifle on the table and the garage locked!

And it's not till they reach about 30 years of age that they realize that Dad knew more than they that he did!!!!!

Good grief, Before noon, I hadn't had a drink, Wasn't overly tired, but I still could spell "Thought".

Back when my boys were in HS I bought a Snap-on set of pullers I beleave they were around $1300. When I hung the cabinet on the wall BOTH boys had a fit because I put a lock on it. So I removed it and told them if any thing is missing the Garage gets a lock and they get no key. After that I never ran over a wrench or screwdriver in the yard with the lawnmore. Seems they figured I ment it. Both turned out to be good mechanics Both own and run there own busniess. My daughter well she hardly ever came into the garage as it was a place she would get somthing on her that didn't come off easy. Although she never hesitated to show up at the overhead door with her hand out for $$$$$ to go shoping with her mom .(My first wife) The second wife (curent and last) has no problem getting dirtyin the shop. new tool shows up shes right there "Hows that work" and she has to try it. The other day she had a welding job SHE wanted to do. So I set her up watched over her and she did real good. I got burnt tacking the first part but she did real good.

"Sometimes I take one, just to get even"

Too cool.

Its all just payback, i did it to my pops, now by boy is doing it to me, my only regret is i wish i had some of those tools i broke as a kid, my dad has some nice stuff

Another funny thing.
My boy likes to take nuts and bolts, and small thing like these, and drop them in body panels, and hard to reach places. Well one night me and my buddy were at another buddies shop doing some work and we both brought our boys along, ones alittle over 3, and one is 5, well they were playing around our buddies race bike, when we noticed they were having alot of fun, so we went to investigate, well we found they put every nut ,bolt, metal scrap, you name it ,in every hole on the bike, mostly down the exhaust, so we spent the next couple hours dismantling the bike to find all the hidden treasures.