I said I would clean up and I did! Tossed most of the scrap wood underneath the trailer and out of the way. Put some tools up. We'll see how long it takes to get messy again.
Poling platform is off getting new feet welded on the trimmed legs, so I thought I'd start working on the platform deck. There were a bunch of holes in the side for the white all around light. Thought I'd clean that up first. I countersunk the holes a little to give them more surface area for a filler to bite to then mixed up some epoxy with milled fiber and fumed silica to get a good fibrous paste.
I'm gonna clean the whole thing up, sand this repair flush, apply some quikfair over a few places, then prime and paint the same hull grey color.
Worked on the seat mounting a bit. Ordered some mushroom attachment disks...i think that's what they're called. It's kinda like hook and loop except both sides are the same style and they interlock. Its pretty strong! For the back I mounted them straight to the back and they line up with the perimeter of the access hatch frame. Just screwed them into the plastic.
For the seat bottom, I made 2 frame pieces that I'll screw to the seat bottom. This spaces it off the console and clear the round hatch. I'll attach the discs directly to the frame and the console. I epoxy coated these already so I'll just need to prime and paint these to match the console.
And my wire order came in yesterday! Went from nowhere to be found on 10/11 to my mailbox yesterday. It's a halloween miracle!
Ran the wires for the anchor hydraulic motor and now working on the switch system. I'm putting in a wireless relay board so I can deploy the anchor and trim the motor with a wireless fob. I'll also have trim on the throttle control and I'm going to hide a switch for the anchor control under the deck near the box as a manual override if the wireless relay fails. It is an Amazon special afterall...
I did at least power it on and cycle the relays a few times to make sure which button on the remote corresponded to which relay and to verify mode of operation. You can set it to operate in 3 different ways depending on how 3 pins are shorted together. Momentary, which is what I'm using, latching, and another one that I didn't quite understand.
