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Message: <blockquote data-quote="muskyhunter1978" data-source="post: 511503" data-attributes="member: 34965">This weeks update.  Weather was a bit warmer so I could feel my fingers better.  Been going over all the pits with a fine toothed comb to ensure its as good as reasonably possible.  Pretty happy with how it cleaned up.  IT WAS A LOT OF WORK.  I will say that.I made a template off the old wood core to use as a basis for the new metal skin.  I had to add a little to the bottom as I took out the Z channel that the core sits into to clean the corrosion out from between it and the outer skin.  I wanted to make sure the new tin completely covered this area and the rivet holes were well within the new skin so it all goes back together flush and not half the new tin covering half a rivet hole.  Hard to explain without pics.  After test fitting the cardboard template and ensuring perfect fit, I cut the new tin and slid her in.  Perfect fit with maybe 1/4" of clearance on each side.  I did clamp it down tight and take a grinder to clean up a little where it was off on the curved bit.  Happy.This weekend is supposed to warm up so I will be drilling out all the mounting holes and getting wood blocks cut and drilled to use for clamping.  There is one area, on each side of the transom where I won't be able to get clamps that deep.  Brainstorming how I can get solid clamping pressure down there when I get to the epoxy stage.[ATTACH=full]119299[/ATTACH]</blockquote>