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Jon and V Boat Conversions & Modifications
1978 Starcraft SUS 16ft - Rebuild and Fix'er up
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<blockquote data-quote="silentbravo" data-source="post: 491175" data-attributes="member: 29669"><p><strong><span style="font-size: 18px">Completion of the Transom</span></strong></p><p></p><p>The original transom support brace had flimsy tabs that bolted to the transom board, and they were mostly broken off. My dad had the idea to add these heavy duty aluminum angle pieces and we had them welded to the support. They bolt into the original holes so no new holes had to be added to the outside aluminum skin.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]112102[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]112103[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]112104[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]112105[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>A few of the rivets from this brace were broken at the bottom of the boat so we replaced them. I bought good aviation style rivets, the air chisel hammers and fixed a few of them around the boat. Those rivets are practically as good as welding, super strong.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]112106[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Here were some of the rivets replaced on the bottom of the hull. You can see some were already replaced with the wrong style of rivets... and then the new proper rivets added in.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]112107[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]112108[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Here's the condition of the rear skin, lots of dents, scrapes, holes. Actually this is after I had cleaned it up and patched some of the holes that didn't need to be there...</p><p>[ATTACH=full]112109[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Here I used Rustoleum Self Etching Primer to coat that big bare patch of aluminum. This originally had a 1/2" plywood backer that was totally garbage and unneccessary for my use.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]112110[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]112111[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="silentbravo, post: 491175, member: 29669"] [b][size=5]Completion of the Transom[/size][/b] The original transom support brace had flimsy tabs that bolted to the transom board, and they were mostly broken off. My dad had the idea to add these heavy duty aluminum angle pieces and we had them welded to the support. They bolt into the original holes so no new holes had to be added to the outside aluminum skin. [ATTACH type="full" alt="1.jpg"]112102._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="2.jpg"]112103._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="3.jpg"]112104._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="4.jpg"]112105._xfImport[/ATTACH] A few of the rivets from this brace were broken at the bottom of the boat so we replaced them. I bought good aviation style rivets, the air chisel hammers and fixed a few of them around the boat. Those rivets are practically as good as welding, super strong. [ATTACH type="full" alt="5.jpg"]112106._xfImport[/ATTACH] Here were some of the rivets replaced on the bottom of the hull. You can see some were already replaced with the wrong style of rivets... and then the new proper rivets added in. [ATTACH type="full" alt="5a.jpg"]112107._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="5b.jpg"]112108._xfImport[/ATTACH] Here's the condition of the rear skin, lots of dents, scrapes, holes. Actually this is after I had cleaned it up and patched some of the holes that didn't need to be there... [ATTACH type="full" alt="6.jpg"]112109._xfImport[/ATTACH] Here I used Rustoleum Self Etching Primer to coat that big bare patch of aluminum. This originally had a 1/2" plywood backer that was totally garbage and unneccessary for my use. [ATTACH type="full" alt="7.jpg"]112110._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="8.jpg"]112111._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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