Zip ties, tabbin, or pulling wires

Phil Nowack

Phil Nowack

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So, last night I glassed up the section that had the set up issue with tabs. 6 heat lamps, warm epoxy to start with, and a canvas tarp trapping the heat in... Everything set up beautifully. I just have a few wire stitches to pull.


Since I a timeline driven person.. After rereading old posts this morning, I was wondering about restitching the 2 cockpit compartments with zip ties. The other options are burn more time by tabbing, or fillet over the stitches and then heat the stitches and pull them....


Does anyone know of any adverse effects of leaving zip ties in?


( note this is time sensitive, as I will be proceeding this afternoon, with one of these methods)
 
Pulling the stitches after making fillets isn't a big deal.

I, personally, would not do major structural fillets in the kind of temps you are planning on - or I'd do a lot of research on the negative effects of low temp on curing. If all it does is slow the chemical reactions - fine, but if it changes the end product such that it is more brittle or weaker, that would be unacceptable. I know you have a deadline in your head and want to make progress, but it seems like this is a case where waiting is the prudent route.
 
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Tod, per manufacturer of epoxy this works to 50 degrees. It was 45 today, and I had heat going. It was plenty fine.
 
I have always built in warm weather but when I built my Poleboat I used zip ties and left a few in, just cut and fillet. Can't see they would be any problem.
 
So.... 35 hours...4 gal of epoxy/hardener and I am ready to flip the hull!!! The is always an exciting, yet scary part of the build... well... scary because it is me and my wife.....
 
That is a good idea Dave. The Way I was thinking was to put the bow and stern eyes in...the hook onto the bow eye and 1 of the stern eyes..... and use the FEL on the tractor. Put it back on the trailer upside down...and back inside...
 
That's what I have done, Phil. Bow eye and stern handle and pullys from the ceiling. Actually I think I even used ratchet straps a couple of times to lift and turn my BB3. It's still tricky but doable by yourself.

I am amazed at how fast this is coming together for you - then again, this isn't your first boat.
 
Work smart, not hard. It's been a long time (too long probably) since I flipped a boat but if memory serves right I did something like Dave's roll in the rope trick. I have used those wonderful ratchet straps for lots of tricks too.
 
Flipping it was much easier than expected...probably could have done it by hand... at least if another guy was there to help.



 
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