Well that was the scariest half hour of my recent memory.
Elected to glue the transom bottom laminations to the floor timber, and the centre upright to the floor timber. Learnt a lot of things really quick.
1. The glue makes everything really slippery, so when your trying to clamp, things slide all over the place, particularly as I was wary about over-clamping and squeezing all the glue out.
2. If you don't apply clamps before you screw, the two pieces will not respond to clamping afterwards as the screw threads hold the pieces apart.
3. If the screw driver bit slips even once with Silicon bronze screws, then the head is stuffed and your best course of action is to take it out if you can. I wrecked two screws in the process of putting 6 screws in. One of the things I did forget to do was use soap to lubricate them, must remember that for next time.
I had read numerous comments about over clamping, but found when it came to doing the job, I wasn't actually sure what constitutes over clamping. currently I have about a 1/32th gap between the pieces that is filled with glue. I need to do some research on this before my next glueing attempt.
But after all that I am reasonably happy with the outcome. But will need to wait for the glue to dry to be sure.
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