The forecast for Saturday was for a high of 17 so I had high hopes of getting some glueing done, but alas it only got to 15 briefly.
I decided to put a 2mm radius on the top sides of my battens. Several people recommended doing this to the frames, and although I don't recall anybody saying it about the battens, it still seemed like a good idea. I am sure my knees will thank me latter.
So I set about modifying my work bench to accept my router mounted from below. This took a couple of hours to rig up and the results were disappointing. My bench has started to sag a little in the middle.
So I gave up on that and just put the battens on the ground and ran along them. I had thought that would be awkward (not sure in hindsight why), but it turned out to be quick, easy and produce good results.
The rest of the day was spent sanding some of the battens, drilling holes, final trim on notches etc
By mid afternoon I had done all I could on the port side and started marking out more notches on the starboard side. Got 1 cut before I ran out of time.
I also had a look at the data sheet for the glue and discovered 16 deg is the minimum, not 15 as I had thought.
I did also however find there is another version of hardner that can go down to 4 deg so I am going to look into that.
Not a lot of progress really, a bit disappointing.
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