As you can see in the above pic I did not prime the area that needed to be patched yet.
I was still waiting on the supplies for that project but since I had time to work on other stuff,
I went ahead with that.
Now onto the fun part. :---) Fixing that "Titanic" hole in the hull.
Luckily, a friend provided me a perfect piece of aluminum to use as a patch.
I cut the metal to length using a cheapo tile saw I had purchased for doing our kitchen floor
awhile back. Very noisy and a little unerving trying to cut metal with it, but it did the job. I attempted
to cut an angle at the end to somewhat match the hull. But in the end I decided having all my fingers
was more way more important than this piece lining up
perfectly with the bottom of the boat.
Then I shaped the metal strip to match the bends of the hull as close as possible using a rubber mallet
and a cinder block. Prolly can't see in the pics but there are slight bends in the hull that may prevent the
bond from being totally uniform and solid.
Then, using a wire wheel I got the area down to bear metal on the boat and sanded up the aluminum patch till it shined.
Started out by mixing up 1 entire kit of the JB and smearing it over the metal strip. I applied the strip to the
hull and used the rest of the JB to fill in where needed.