SCAMP #434 Build - January Progress Report

Retired guy as of January 5th so it is time to get down to work. Here is the January round up...

Work Stands

Purchased six 8' 2x6's and deck screws that were used to construct the four work stands.  Shout out to Argo Builder SCAMP blog for dimensions.  

Cutting 2x6's to size

Finished stands

Build Jig

A pleasant afternoon of assembling, truing, squaring, bracing and screwing the building jig together.  This kit is awesome - everything fits together so beautifully!

With a 20" wide piece of 3/8" plywood underneath to store parts

Very useful bubble level app

Gluing Bits

Set up an epoxy centre on the workbench and set about gluing up some of the puzzle joint parts.

Using an old baking sheet to keep things tidy

Using the plastic covered shop floor and 2x4 'clamps with waxed paper to keep avoid gluing thing that ain't meant to be.

Deck screws and 2 x 4  clamps with added 2 x 18 kg kitty litter

Routing Bits and Pieces

A1/8" round over router bit to put a nice radius on edges that will be visible while leaving all joining edges at 90 degrees.  Light sanding of all edges.

Ready for epoxy sealing

Centreboard Weight

Following Brent's 'Building Hagoth' SCAMP blog I substituted the a piece of 3/4"x6"x17.5", 22 pound steel flatbar for the lead as centreboard weight.  This gets me out of all the nasty lead melting but it does require me to route out a larger cavity.  Again following Brent I positioned the steel on the outside of the board and drilled small holes through each corner to transfer position to the inner faces. Using my circular saw set to a hair over 3/8" cut depth I cut the perimeter and a series of cross cuts.  Resulting blocks were then chiseled out and then cleaned up with my router and a 3/4 flat bit also set to 3/8".  Now to just glue the two side together but I think I may need to purchase a few more clamps first.  Thanks Brent for the tips!
Cleaned up epoxy drips, sanded and routed the head

Bulkhead Hatches Cutouts

One of the great details with this CNC kit is that the lines are prescribed for positioning the cut outs for the large hatches on the bulkhead #2.  Sweet.  I used a hole saw to do the corners as the radius seemed a bit tight for jig sawing.  The trusty circular saw cut the straight aways.

Dry fitting the hatches

Gluing up the centreboard and rudder

Needed to run out and buy more clamps!  Once again the 18 kg kitty litter steps up.  Afterwards cleaned up epoxy drips, sanded and used 3/8" round over router bit to pretty up the heads of rudder and CB.

Epoxy Coating

One coat rolled on and tipped with disposable brush, wait 6-8 hours until it is tacky and repeat.

Utilizing every flat surface

These little plastic pyramids used to hold part so both sides can be coated

Sanding

5" orbital sander with 100 grit disks to knock down the little bumps and rough up the surface for painting.

Making some dust

Ripping Cleats

Glassing CB Case

Dry

Wet

With graphite/epoxy final coat

End of month one!