vintage chromoly

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built the battery boxes and a couple "platforms" for the aft, port and aft, starboard corners in the bilge. i needed someplace to place my hydraulic pumps for the drive trim and the eventual k planes trim pumps.

going to work on tabbing them in today.

here's a few pics:

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i received the florida marine fuel tank and i've painted it with a good epoxy primer and an acrylic urethane topcoat to prevent it from corroding as the original did.

here's some tank pics:

vintage chromoly

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in preparation for the new tank i decided to examine the stowage compartment that shares a bulkhead with the tank area. glad i did as i found the compartment floor to be completely rotten. seems as if pantera never sealed the bottom of the plywood "floor" of the stowage bin. i made new bulkheads and a new compartment floor and assembled it with 1708 and ve resin.

here are some pics:

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in further preparation for the tank install i've glassed in the new stringers from the tank/bilge bulkhead forward. i will glass the rear/bilge stringers after the tank is in place and i can install the rear bulkhead and glass it together as a unit.

i used ve resin and 1708 fabric to splice in the new stringers. two layers of fabric over everything with two additional layers of 6 inch wide "tabbing" 1708 at the hull/stringer joint. it's super stiff!

next up is the actual tank install.

here's a couple pics of the repair:

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a couple more:

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the tank is between the stringers!

i've finished the glass work on the front cabin stowage compartment and placed the tank in the boat. it feels good to be moving in a forward fashion as opposed to grinding things apart.

i will foam in the tank today.

some pics:

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starting to cut the tabbing and fit it for the final assembly.

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also working on the helm.

i've decided to add a couple gauges and move some stuff around so i had to fill some of the factory cutouts.

i will be monitoring fuel level, water temp, oil temp, oil pressure, voltage and vacume.

a couple pics:

tomcei

nice work VC. Thanks for the pics

scarab63

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Rob, may wanna consider water psi to the list too.

$.02

Lookin nice !!!