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The rivet length mentioned above is dead on! After bucking it should be 1/2 D in height and 1 1/2 D in width. Just make sure you seat the head with pressure and drive the buck tail until you have a nice permanent rivet. Sometimes it’s hard to get perfect buck tails in tight areas. Wet install...

Seven of ten rib reinforcing angles installed.

I was unable to post any pictures in the post above…I will try again. My internet has been hit or miss for the last week…I hate Brightspeed! The pictures below show how I wet install a rivet.

Thanks Thill. I installed seven (of ten) rib reinforcement angles after work tonight. I stopped at seven because that’s how far one tube of 3M 2200 adhesive went. I have another tube on hand, but I want to have a use for what I won’t need on the three reinforcement angles. I’m going to...

Thanks for the kind words, she has been through a lot in the last four months. I had to bend the 1.5” .125 angles a little past 90 degrees. The vertical sides of the ribs aren’t perfectly perpendicular to the floor, or parallel with themselves. I guess the ribs or hat channel’s bowed when...

My wife has been sick & hospitalized since December 26th. I haven’t had time to do anything for the last four months. I decided to start making time to work on this boat, otherwise it will never get done. Yesterday I started sanding, inspecting and preparing the interior so I can paint it...

Watch this video. He talks about how the sheet metal has to be clamped to the transom, to pull it into shape.

The boat hull sheet metal relies on structural components (ribs & stringers) to maintain its shape. In your case the wood transom was the structure that helped the sheet metal maintain its shape. You removed the wood, now the thin sheet metal can bow or flex out of shape. When you install your...

Yup, SS bolts & 5200 sealant.

If the title reads “Maid”, and the data plate reads “Texas Maid”, why do you believe it is not a Maid, or Texas Maid. It sounds like a little play on words. Texas Boat Manufacturing Company INC, manufactured a boat in Texas, the boat was made in Texas, hence the Texas Maid. I like the lines and...

Nice boat you have there, built for salt water or big water. I like the idea of pouring the foam in the sides and keeping it out of the lower water prone areas. As far as the splash well goes, you want to have a low spot where water will drain out, if you back-down into a wave accidentally. The...

I would use the same thickness sheet for the tunnel as the hull skin.

Nice classic boat there… Ranger III. You remind me of me…lol. Everything gets “Hot Rodded”. I like the idea of swapping the engine cowl to retain the classic look.

Good question. In the item description it says “This air rivet bits suitable for hollow, solid, and half-hollow rivet”. The two rivet sets on the right are for universal head solid rivets. The four on the left must be for “hollow & half hollow”

You remind me of me…lol Reminds me of the time I took my little lake boat out in the Puget Sound chasing a halibut hot spot. All was good until the WX went south and we had to run back to the boat ramp as the seas & wind tried to sink us.

This is an interesting topic, ever since I picked up a used console for the steering parts. It had a head unit in it, and that got me thinking about a sound system for my boat. If I had music in my boat, I’m sure a little Lynyrd Skynyrd would be played…taking me back to the seventies when I...

I’ve had a 1648 for almost 20 years now. It gets pressure washed occasionally, otherwise it’s a maintenance free boat. I use it for fishing & crabbing mostly. WhenI bought it, it had a couple seats bolted on, but I took them off. I’d rather sit on a boat cushion (throwable life preserver), it...

My fist thought on painting an aluminum boat, is no don’t paint it if it’s bare aluminum, and has never been painted before. Once an aluminum boat has been painted, it is too work intensive to strip it back to bare aluminum again. Having said that, once an aluminum boat has been painted, it will...

Try a left hand drill bit. Sometimes it will catch and run the broken bolt out…like hitting pay dirt.

Aye Capt’n … Steady as she goes I’m sure Thill has read this thread, because he has commented along the way. After studying the pic I posted more, I believe I can simply raise the assembly until the roller sits under the eye fitting. That will raise the winch making a straighter pull. It’s...