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1968 K-Craft Project - First Boat 14' length 36' bottom
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<blockquote data-quote="TJBrown" data-source="post: 100238" data-attributes="member: 1678"><p>Getting the boat sound. I Started out with getting the floor, rails and everything else back straight. ALot of pounding with a dead blow hammer. Got it all straight</p><p></p><p>Before</p><p><img src="https://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y258/DNA2112/JonBoat/JonBoat04.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>After</p><p><img src="https://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y258/DNA2112/JonBoat/FlatFloor.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>I put the boat on horses and filled with water. Lets just say there was more than a new slow leaks. Two angle aluminum patches on the bottom rails leaked big time. I ended up getting on a creeper and marked all the leaks in the aluminum and the leaky rivets. I ended up with 12 leaks and about 20 rivets that needed to be re-bucked. I removed the two patches and found that it looked like the boat took to direct hits by a 38. I took the boat to my dads and spent about 5 houts TIG welding all the cracks and applying patches. Here are two of the patches</p><p><img src="https://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y258/DNA2112/JonBoat/Patch02.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="https://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y258/DNA2112/JonBoat/Patch01.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>I re-bucked all the rivets that i had marked and filled with water again. No Leaks! Perfect</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TJBrown, post: 100238, member: 1678"] Getting the boat sound. I Started out with getting the floor, rails and everything else back straight. ALot of pounding with a dead blow hammer. Got it all straight Before [img]https://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y258/DNA2112/JonBoat/JonBoat04.jpg[/img] After [img]https://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y258/DNA2112/JonBoat/FlatFloor.jpg[/img] I put the boat on horses and filled with water. Lets just say there was more than a new slow leaks. Two angle aluminum patches on the bottom rails leaked big time. I ended up getting on a creeper and marked all the leaks in the aluminum and the leaky rivets. I ended up with 12 leaks and about 20 rivets that needed to be re-bucked. I removed the two patches and found that it looked like the boat took to direct hits by a 38. I took the boat to my dads and spent about 5 houts TIG welding all the cracks and applying patches. Here are two of the patches [img]https://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y258/DNA2112/JonBoat/Patch02.jpg[/img] [img]https://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y258/DNA2112/JonBoat/Patch01.jpg[/img] I re-bucked all the rivets that i had marked and filled with water again. No Leaks! Perfect [/QUOTE]
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