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Browsed around at Lowes yesterday for "Lattice strips" as usual you get little to no help from the store reps. The guy looked at me like I had three heads when I asked him where the lattice strips were located. I really like this video that I found on youtube to compliment the thread here (this...

So what's considered the back side vs. the front side?

I'd have preferred to use those but the support spars I have are only about 1" wide so the Berkeley fit better without additional modification. I could have made a mounting plate out of aluminum and put larger holders and maybe down the road that is what I will do.

So how does one determine the most appropriate "tip" for the pneumatic rivet hammer? I see the flat faced one and then several with the concave /rounded face

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Awesome work. Love the photos and detail provided thank you for sharing all of this.

I pulled the trigger on these anyway and will give them a shot. I zip tied them in place for now as I'm not sure I want to drill holes until I test them on a trip or two. One thing I don't like about this is the divider in the center is too thin to cut so that both sides will have some plastic...

Weldor, do these work when in transit too? I drive a short bed Tacoma and it's always a bit of a task getting the rods stored safely in the bed of the truck and without stuff sliding around or crushing them. I'd really like to mount my rods horizontally off the bench supports like you did and be...

I'll take all of the ideas I can get! Thank you!

Painted interior today, reassembled transom and riveted the bench support spars/braces back on. Eventually will add floors, seats, want to carpet the wood floors and carpet wood for bench tops so I can mount swivel seat brackets to the wood. Pretty happy with how it turned out. Epoxy primer on...

Having trouble visualizing. What did you mean by the flat bar running under the bench. ? The support spars that attach gunwale to top of bench?

Trying to decide what I want to do for seat brackets. I went to the local bass pro and the seats I like range anywhere from $50 to $75. It seems like there are a lot of options for mounting the seats but I'm trying to find an option that won't require drilling holes into the OEM aluminum bench...

Glenn if you have more time than I did, and a larger window to work in when painting, I'd really take more time to practice with the material and gun. You can pick up some scrap metal or aluminum from a local salvage yard and just practice spraying it, see how it sets up and dries. The only...

Probably just a little 15 or 20hp tiller. Haven't decided between a 2 or 4 stroke. Will try to find something on Craigslist. My debate on motor size is many of the mountain lakes here are 10HP or electric only. But if I do get a desire to take it on a larger lake I'll probably want more than a...

Painted exterior as planned. Looks good from about 10ft but I should have done some stuff differently because I got a decent amount of orange peel and a rougher than desired finish. Lines from tape and masking came out great so that was a bright spot. Was advised not to use a reducer with the...

Here in AZ where it is 30% humidity and 90 degrees by 7:30 or 8AM I am going to try to spray and use a slow urethane reducer as recommended by manufacturer. This really helps me get the paint on quickly. It is messier and maybe the results won't look quite as good as the Roll and Tip method but...

They have the 4" wheel brush (orange) at my local Ace Hardware for $10. I'll stop by and pick one up to give it a whirl. Will report back with my findings. Do you have a link to your thread of prep and paint for that particular boat you showed with the brush? I searched your posts but couldn't...

Man oh man have I got my money's worth out of that Orange Nyalox Brush you recommended. I bought the cup brush (2.5") from amazon...

I am working on a 16' Starcraft Seafarer. Mine is a 1981 and appears very similar to yours in floor /rib design and style. Mine is only rated for 5 people and 780lbs from what little I could read on the faded placard. I believe it's only rated for 35 or 40hp too. I'm just going to put a 15 or...

Only thing I can imagine is it detracts from original engineered structural integrity. If I went and removed benches I personally would not want to take the boat out and hammer on it as hard. I have heard stories of guys removing bench seats and folding their boats up like an empty beer can.