Console thickness
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Console thickness
Any reason I can't build my console with steering and binnacle with 3/4" marine ply?
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Re: Console thickness
Mine is 1/2".
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Re: Console thickness
Thing is kinda big and worried it'll sag at 1/2".
And I want to do some cutouts and mount a binnacle.
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Re: Console thickness
It looks the the yellow strip on the bulkhead is a cleat. Right? What’s the width?
If so, then a 3-4” wide vertical apron on the front edge will support the deck, while the clear supports the back, but even still, your suspicions are probably well founded, and some sort of torsion box assembly under the console deck will make it much stiffer.
If so, then a 3-4” wide vertical apron on the front edge will support the deck, while the clear supports the back, but even still, your suspicions are probably well founded, and some sort of torsion box assembly under the console deck will make it much stiffer.
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Re: Console thickness
The console is on the right.Dan_Smullen wrote: ↑Sun Mar 22, 2020 8:40 am It looks the the yellow strip on the bulkhead is a cleat. Right? What’s the width?
If so, then a 3-4” wide vertical apron on the front edge will support the deck, while the clear supports the back, but even still, your suspicions are probably well founded, and some sort of torsion box assembly under the console deck will make it much stiffer.
A bench goes on the left.
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Re: Console thickness
Well then, same should apply. Cleat on the bulkhead, apron on the front. Some lateral supports running front to back, glued to the bottom of the deck, and I believe she’d be as stiff as a weddi... Well, you get the idea.
Interested to see what you come up with.
Interested to see what you come up with.
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