Tassie Wadefish

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PiratePete
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Joined: Fri Sep 11, 2009 6:57 am
Type of boat I like: Wadefish + Mirarge Drive.
Location: Tassie, Australia

Re: Tassie Wadefish

Post by PiratePete »

Had to fix up my vacuum system as my old one finally collapsed under use. It had been making a funny boink boink noise for a few years now as the dents sucked in & out under use.

I just cut a disk out of some scrap melamine & screwed the old lid inside it. It has a paint tin & as piece of shade cloth over it. This is the inside of the cyclone.

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Drilled a hole in the side fitted a piece of hose through it as the inlet & to make the air swirl around the cyclone

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Bung the lid on & seal with good old duct tape. Plug the suction into the top & the hose to the side & 1 vacuum system.

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This saves the dust bag in the actual shop vac from filling too quickly & even manages to catch most of the fines as well.
preacher
Posts: 213
Joined: Fri Feb 27, 2009 12:37 am
Type of boat I like: Cape Fear SOT
Location: Balch Springs, Texas

Re: Tassie Wadefish

Post by preacher »

I like that . . . a lot!
PiratePete
Posts: 305
Joined: Fri Sep 11, 2009 6:57 am
Type of boat I like: Wadefish + Mirarge Drive.
Location: Tassie, Australia

Re: Tassie Wadefish

Post by PiratePete »

Managed some more on the Wadefish today. Its a public holiday here today.

Got mine fiberglassed across the second side of the joints & most of the daughters sanded up & almost ready to glue together.

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My sander broke. Its a product from Triton & fits to an angle grinder to make it an orbital sander.

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It was great for sanding down weather boards when we renovated a 100 year old Federation House about 10 years ago. I guess the rubber has perished.
Bellybuster
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Joined: Thu Sep 03, 2009 11:38 am
Type of boat I like: pirogues kayaks

Re: Tassie Wadefish

Post by Bellybuster »

she'll be lookin like a boat soon.
From the looks of that sander it has served you well
PiratePete
Posts: 305
Joined: Fri Sep 11, 2009 6:57 am
Type of boat I like: Wadefish + Mirarge Drive.
Location: Tassie, Australia

Re: Tassie Wadefish

Post by PiratePete »

I got some more time in the shed today & got the kayak loosely stitched together. I need to get the other frames in & then start to tighten it all up.

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Also got a new sander, you cant see it in the pic but it hooks up to my Vac system. :D :D :D
preacher
Posts: 213
Joined: Fri Feb 27, 2009 12:37 am
Type of boat I like: Cape Fear SOT
Location: Balch Springs, Texas

Re: Tassie Wadefish

Post by preacher »

Life really improved when I got sanders that connected to the vacuum system.
PiratePete
Posts: 305
Joined: Fri Sep 11, 2009 6:57 am
Type of boat I like: Wadefish + Mirarge Drive.
Location: Tassie, Australia

Re: Tassie Wadefish

Post by PiratePete »

I got some more time in the shed today after a week of not being able to do any thing in there.

I cut the temporary frames out of some MDF so I can keep the off cuts of ply for the Mirage Drive Socket. I fitted these & flipped the hull over & started to fit the spacers & tighten every thing up.

Its starting to look boat shaped now.

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I also added some of those special DNA Micro Dots to the built to prove I made it.

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Thankfully its under where the graphite will be so I dont need to try & sand it out.
jem
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Re: Tassie Wadefish

Post by jem »

blood, sweat, and beers.... er augh... tears!
-Matt. Designer.
craiggamesh
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Re: Tassie Wadefish

Post by craiggamesh »

If you didn't bleed on it, you didn't build it right. At least that is what I tell myself to help with the pain.
Regards,

Craig
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OnkaBob
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Location: Seaford, South Oz

Re: Tassie Wadefish

Post by OnkaBob »

craiggamesh wrote:If you didn't bleed on it, you used cable ties.
Fixed! :twisted: :lol: :lol:
Cheers, Bob

Laker 13 - christened and slimed (just).
Laker accessories underway.
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