Recent content by johnboat_red

all of the above and make sure your welds are really clean aluminum is not as forgiving of poor weld prep as steel #-o ask me how i know i would spend the money on a die grinder and a surface prep kit that has scotchbrite pads on it i think there like $20 for the kit. then run that over every...

thanks for the advise bill i was looking around at a big box store before i went to work and found what might be the ticket for priming this boat its rust-oleum aluminum primer 4 cans of primer a 15 pack of 80grit sanding disks and $50 later i got a decent start to this project. i think I'm...

well i got the tape measure out the width measures 36" at the transom and transomt to bow lenght is 13' 10" so i guess the boat is a 1436 oh pulled this out of the small lake by my house didn't measure but I'm gonna guess at least 12"

ya electrolysis and you have not made the entire boat a ground plane so any wires that rub through or if you drop a batt cable. etc ...ZAP dead short to ground say goodby to anything electronic without a fuse.

I was thinking about using truck bedliner to paint the bottom and 3-4" up the side and possibly cammo on the rest of the boat. I'm thinking the the bedliner to help with scratches. I plan on using this boat to run some of the decent sized lakes and smaller rivers and possibly excursions up...

hello all, new to the site, just got a john boat that is in need of some work but the most important parts are covered. IT FLOATS, and it DOESN'T LEAK... well there was just a hint of watter in the bottom but it was just the drain plug being old. I was wonder if anyone could give me any...