Sunday, December 12, 2010

Tape and gussets

At last, we finished taping the bulkheads into the starboard float.  We also made a new set of gussets and used foam filets to form the transition between hull, gussets, and bulkhead.  This time we tried wetting out the tape before putting it in place, then laying in the wet tape.  This saved some effort working the epoxy into the tape through small access ports.  I think this is a better way to do it, though in either case the tape was fully wetted and strong.  In this photo you can see the finished product.  The other side of this bulkhead was taped via a 6" diameter access port, as shown before.  I'm pretty happy to be done with this task, though we still have several tasks remaining that have to be done through the access ports.  Next we will tape the deck seam, then we will remove the float from the forms.

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