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Originally Posted by division1 (Post 4710080)

Took my inside transom plates in to get blasted and coated. Turns out after talking with my machine shop guy we decided since we don’t use the oil fill or anything he just making new billet ones. And the new billet swim platform is all done and turned out incredible can’t wait to start Fitting parts

Did a local shop do this, I picked up a couple on my way through Cleveland headed to Buffalo a few yrs back delivered to Tim while picking up a TG, the shop did an outstanding job on them.

Yes I have guy hear in town who does incredible work he is doing those and my billet swim platform and a few other goodies

Pic of lift arm - the guys in NY did this, I think they got out of this work years ago. I do not have the file for this one. Used pics of Cigs for visual reference and then just designed to scale best I could. (I did not do the arm, or design it, just the slide assembly, which had ALOT of hours in it!)

XT put a nice black rubber spacer in between the slide assy and the fiberglass underside of the hatch, looks professional. That flat alum plate is hidden under the hatch pad, with notches cut into it so it locks the head of the bolts in place. May be better to make it in stainless and tack weld the bolts to it so if you needed to remove it. Ah, just little stuff like that, hindsight.

There's a Cig script machined into the rear portion of the arm. This bolted into the factory mounts that tie down into the stringer. Pretty simple. No one realizes how long all this stuff takes, certainly a hobby for the patient....

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Awesome thanks. The guy who is doing all my machine work has one drawn up. It is crazy how much Time goes into these projects. It will be really nice when it’s done thanks again !!!

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After a ton of sanding and grinding on the walls and transom started the filler process of smoothing out the bilge not worried about the floors I have the laser cut plates that will get glued on and I don’t want filler on the floor we’re water sits. It’s going to be a super thin coat after sanding just enough to smooth it out a bit
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Underside of the twin step hatch. Ready for air file and block sanding
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Ton of sanding and filler to create a clean bilge

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After 4 separate skim coats and a air file it’s pretty smooth and ready for gel coat have some touch ups on corners one more thing off the list

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Selling stock platform $1000. We have a billet one we’re installing. I can blast and powder coat any color if interested for a extra cost .
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Well I’ve decided to go a little deeper in the build ........