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<blockquote data-quote="onthewater102" data-source="post: 365515" data-attributes="member: 13702"><p>Awesome to hear you're finally under weigh!!! Good luck.</p><p></p><p>You're better off with the 6061 structural angle rather than the cosmetics stuff...but yeah, it slows you down. A good ******* file makes short work of that edge work. Oh, and if you've got a face shield and a carbide (?) tipped circular saw blade it is the best thing out there for quickly dicing up the angle. I heated the house burning oak shipping pallets one winter and had the blade so that I could cut through the nails buried in the pallets.</p><p></p><p>Dunno if it helps, but if you take a box-cutter to those panels it makes short work of shaping them.</p><p></p><p>My boat is the same way with the uneven OEM construction (alumacraft) which of course you don't realize until you've cut your first piece of whatever and it doesn't fit. I thought it was just shoddy work on mine as no one else mentioned it before, but now you have me wondering. I was aware of this so when it came time to do the back of my boat I started marking center-lines and taking measurements relative to the one commonly aligned point and everything came out beautifully - my method revealed there was 1/8" variation from one side of the boat to the other in the layout of the seemingly uniform stiffening ribs which existed in the front too and threw off the level of my front deck initially.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="onthewater102, post: 365515, member: 13702"] Awesome to hear you're finally under weigh!!! Good luck. You're better off with the 6061 structural angle rather than the cosmetics stuff...but yeah, it slows you down. A good ******* file makes short work of that edge work. Oh, and if you've got a face shield and a carbide (?) tipped circular saw blade it is the best thing out there for quickly dicing up the angle. I heated the house burning oak shipping pallets one winter and had the blade so that I could cut through the nails buried in the pallets. Dunno if it helps, but if you take a box-cutter to those panels it makes short work of shaping them. My boat is the same way with the uneven OEM construction (alumacraft) which of course you don't realize until you've cut your first piece of whatever and it doesn't fit. I thought it was just shoddy work on mine as no one else mentioned it before, but now you have me wondering. I was aware of this so when it came time to do the back of my boat I started marking center-lines and taking measurements relative to the one commonly aligned point and everything came out beautifully - my method revealed there was 1/8" variation from one side of the boat to the other in the layout of the seemingly uniform stiffening ribs which existed in the front too and threw off the level of my front deck initially. [/QUOTE]
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