Monday 24 November 2014

Cockpit deck framing

Progress is a little slow at the moment. Don't have the money at present to get some of the big ticket items i need to make significant progress

However I am still moving forward.

Deck beam 1 has been relocated aft by 100mm as per the instructions.

Deck beam 5 has been cut out and carlings fitted between beams 4 & 6. Finally deck beam 5 has been refitted between the carlings about 300mm forward of its original position.

The next step is to make a copy of beam 4 and fit that between the carlings about 100mm forward of the existing beam 4. The piece of timber i have for this task has a slight twist. I have had it clamped to my bench for about a week but it hadn't helped so yesterday I layed towels over it and soaked them in boiling water and then left it for 12 hours. This has got rid of most of the twist.  Going to repeat the process to hopefully get the last of it out.

Photos to follow soon.