{"id":130,"date":"2014-12-15T19:10:40","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T19:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saideira.net\/?p=130"},"modified":"2015-03-11T16:40:33","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T16:40:33","slug":"fwd-beam-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saideira.net\/?p=130","title":{"rendered":"Fwd beam box"},"content":{"rendered":"

It looks simple, but it took a good part of a day to measure and cut the pieces that make up the fwd beam box. Luckily I has some help and things kept moving along.<\/p>\n

The pieces\"fwd<\/a><\/p>\n

The glue up. Lots of epoxy oozing out and this baby is going to be solid! We used more screws this time, so less clamps.<\/p>\n

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After removing all the clamps and sanding the piece down, time to see how it fits. Perfect!<\/p>\n

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Now for the two coats of epoxy to seal all the plywood. Notice that I can’t bond this piece to the boat until I drill the holes for mounting the beam bolts. Those are being welded for me and should be done within the week.<\/p>\n

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You might notice that on the picture above you can see frame #1 being glued. A successful day in the shop means one of 3 things happen at the end of the day<\/p>\n

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  1. I bond a bulkhead or frame<\/li>\n
  2. I glue up the additional parts required for a bulkhead or frame<\/li>\n
  3. I am pre-fininshing a bulkhead before installation<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    And right on time for Christmas\u00a0my beam bolts were fabricated so I was able to drill the holes and bond the beam box to the hull<\/p>\n

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    All together we need 16 pieces, and since I had them machine cut, I also made 16 backing plates.<\/p>\n

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    The beam box with the hull cut out and a bracket in place\"beam<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    It looks simple, but it took a good part of a day to measure and cut the pieces that make up the fwd beam box. Luckily I has some help and things kept moving along. The pieces The glue up. Lots of epoxy oozing out and this baby is going to be solid! We used … Continue reading Fwd beam box<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saideira.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saideira.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saideira.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saideira.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saideira.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/saideira.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saideira.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saideira.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saideira.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}