Boats from work.

I finished the cobalt yesterday and brought in a Stingray with some minor damage in an anchor locker and at a latch point in the front.

I'm pretty behind on updates, amd pictures. I thought the Stingray was finished, so next is a Cobalt. The tower was damaged, and in the process of the marina (I'm guessing marina) taking it off, they took some gel off with the bases.





Boss said just fill and spray, since it's not really structural damage. So I filled it with duraglas yesterday, and got it sprayed today.




Also working on another stingray with cracks around the bimini top brackets.



I've barely started on that at the end of yesterday, so no good pics, but I did break a screwdriver. I think they drilled holes for #8 screws and ran #10s. The heads are wedged into the countersunk recesses on the brackets.

And finally, the boss looked on the estimate for the first Stingray and saw that there was another spot to fix in the ski locker. The screw holes for the lid latch were completely stripped out. Had to do a little cutting, hand scuffing, and glassing behind the holes.

The Cobalt and Stingray with locker damage are gone. I didn't take finished pics of the Cobalt, it's just white gel, but here is the pad we put in the anchor locker on the Stingray. It looks better in person.



Also some more of the Stingray with bimini mount cracks.




There were some more that I didn't know about the other day.

The stingray is done, and I even remembered to get some pictures before it's gone.





Next up is a truck again.






Busted the corner of the fender, seperated from the inner support, broke to thread inserts out of the back of the headlight, and bent the passenger step bracket. We're just doing the fiberglass work though.

More truck pics.

Some damage to the inner support panels too, as well as the hood seperating from them. Everything is just epoxied together with no scuffing, it just popped apart.



Some taped up cardboard to glass to.









Notice how the angle looks good? Well...


A straight edge on the other side looked good, so I did that withthe little bit of fender that was left at the back. I even cut it a bit bigger than the line. I had to grind the bottom edge down and lengthen it, glass is drying now. The headlight side is good though.

Mike you are not just an artist, holy crap.I enjoy the posts.

Mike, if you were closer I would get you to fix the bumper of my wife's Acadia. Some jerk backed into it at Walmart we believe and left without a note or identifying what they did.

DeepCMark58A said:

Mike you are not just an artist, holy crap.I enjoy the posts.

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No! I refuse to accept praise on the grounds that I found ANOTHER problem. I think the cardboard sagged out, and the whole thing tilts away from the headlight. It's so think that I can't flex it either. Uuuugggghhhhh. Today sucks.

aspeck said:

Mike, if you were closer I would get you to fix the bumper of my wife's Acadia. Some jerk backed into it at Walmart we believe and left without a note or identifying what they did.

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It would probably be cheaper to get a used one and have it sprayed to match.

maybe use heat on the fiberglass

Scott Danforth said:

maybe use heat on the fiberglass

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Fiberglass doesn't soften under heat. Enough heat to do that would probably ignite it. I had to grind the inside real thin to make it flexible.




Tomorrow I get to figure out how to hold it in place and put some more glass to hold the shape I need.