Thad Allen's Apache + The Birth of the Cheetah Cat
05-08-2010 | 03:07 PM
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From: Beautiful Fort Lauderdale www.cheetahcat.com
Here the 43 Falcon I did and the deck mold has just been pulled off and is on the floor, it has axles like the hull mold so it can be spun over after lamination and placed on the bottom mold into the interlocks in the flange, laminate is feathered back to allow for this. dead fit every time. A long ways from home.
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05-08-2010 | 03:17 PM
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Here let me go back, in the collection of things Thad Bought there were a couple Binks Gelcoaters were to be found, I stripped one down and piped it into a large cone funnel on the intake side now the bottom of the pump known as the fluid section,
I placed in a Tub which was filled with water and ice, there was a desk beside it with a Gram scale with tenth of a gram resolution, The Epoxy and hardener and some Acetone (for clean up and flushing the system) was there as well with an Airmixer my brother or later a special trained crew member would batch 3000 gram mixes which then got dumped into the cone on the pump ,the out side ran through a 50' 3/8"s Hose to a 1/2" ballvalve on a Magnum pressure fed roller long handle to the head.We put 5 layers of laminate down a shot.
I placed in a Tub which was filled with water and ice, there was a desk beside it with a Gram scale with tenth of a gram resolution, The Epoxy and hardener and some Acetone (for clean up and flushing the system) was there as well with an Airmixer my brother or later a special trained crew member would batch 3000 gram mixes which then got dumped into the cone on the pump ,the out side ran through a 50' 3/8"s Hose to a 1/2" ballvalve on a Magnum pressure fed roller long handle to the head.We put 5 layers of laminate down a shot.
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05-08-2010 | 03:18 PM
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There were 3 or more starts and stops on the T-4 job so the time is hard to figure with setting up a new shop also I will work that out, The "T" was for Titanium which was for all the hardware we had planned for it. Wilson had a way cool integrated into the hull bow eye system worked out for it and the T-3 terminator movie. I will go into the end of that in this thread.
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05-08-2010 | 03:20 PM
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From: Beautiful Fort Lauderdale www.cheetahcat.com
Here is that picture in Gray scale the Red awlfair kind of runs everything together.the vents are a little more visible here.
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05-08-2010 | 03:23 PM
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I have mega clumps of photo files here to go through meanwhile here is a Patrol boat in the back it has a mount for a 1/2" Machine gun (polished stainless)in front of the pilot house
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05-08-2010 | 03:28 PM
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The 10 Meter Cheetahcat "One piece" fishing boat, the bulkheads going in held by "Iron maidens" We were moving to the large shop about this time.
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