Boatbuilding perfectionist/former window industry professional installing windows on his boat? May want to have a seat, could be here a little while.
Woods Skoota 32DM
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There are only two seasons in Vermont: boating season, and boat-building season.
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Re: Woods Skoota 32DM
Fortunately, it is just light sanding, a 47th vacuuming of the cabin, and repainting today.
I think I will try to get some headliner up, too. But three windows need to go back in. The windows were easier to remove than mask for sanding and painting. I only had them screwed in partway. The bottom screws are a pita to screw in because I don't have good access to them. I need a mechanical interface. How come noone ever invented a screw you can lock onto before you turn it? Bitlock screws. I even have the name. Now to engineer.
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Bolt/socket not an option there?fallguy1000 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 09, 2021 9:19 am How come noone ever invented a screw you can lock onto before you turn it?
There are only two seasons in Vermont: boating season, and boat-building season.
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Re: Woods Skoota 32DM
All the trims are countersunk for #8s. It just seems like modern man could have invented a means to grab em better. I am a fairly strong man and have hi screwed way more than 100,000 screws in my life and these are a real bear to install, for me.VT_Jeff wrote: ↑Tue Mar 09, 2021 9:30 amBolt/socket not an option there?fallguy1000 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 09, 2021 9:19 am How come noone ever invented a screw you can lock onto before you turn it?
The issue is the attack angle.
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Re: Woods Skoota 32DM
Internal hex flush screws can be driven with an allen head. Lots of ikea furniture assembled this way.
There are a couple of particularly hard to reach locations I frequently need to access on some of our planes I replaced the often stripped phillips head screws with internal hex heads and made life much easier.
Torqs (star bit) is pretty popular for wood screws as well I think.
There are a couple of particularly hard to reach locations I frequently need to access on some of our planes I replaced the often stripped phillips head screws with internal hex heads and made life much easier.
Torqs (star bit) is pretty popular for wood screws as well I think.
Re: Woods Skoota 32DM
narfi wrote: ↑Tue Mar 09, 2021 9:56 am Internal hex flush screws can be driven with an allen head. Lots of ikea furniture assembled this way.
There are a couple of particularly hard to reach locations I frequently need to access on some of our planes I replaced the often stripped phillips head screws with internal hex heads and made life much easier.
Torqs (star bit) is pretty popular for wood screws as well I think.
I love me some torq screws!
Heckva job FJ! Hope the back is holding up
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"Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him." --> Mark Twain
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Re: Woods Skoota 32DM
I'm gonna order some regular head head tapping screws. Noone will see them, but me. Thanks for coining in.
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Re: Woods Skoota 32DM
Third coat of white epoxy.
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Looks good FallGuy!!!! Jeff
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What sorcery is this?
There are only two seasons in Vermont: boating season, and boat-building season.
Completed Paul Butler 14' Clark Fork Drifter
Completed Jacques Mertens FS14LS + 10%, Build Thread
Started Iain Oughtred Tammie Norrie
Completed Paul Butler 14' Clark Fork Drifter
Completed Jacques Mertens FS14LS + 10%, Build Thread
Started Iain Oughtred Tammie Norrie
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