More small part wrapup
More small part wrapup
Well we have yet more small parts. And rudders. The people that ordered rudders are getting antsy and for very good reason. The silly things take a long time to complete. Both Tim & Tom are spending time on them now trying to get them finished up and out the door.
The grinding booth. Tim’s been doing the exterior glassing and smoothing of said glass.
Glass strips for fairing the rudder nose sections.
Fairing all the rudders to the templates after building up the nose knitting glass.
More fairing. Sorry this is taking so long guys, but really your going to love ‘em when you get ‘em.
The “last” of the flat stock being shot. The piece on the right is special high density core plate for use in front of the keel trunk. The piece on the left is 1/4” white stock that’s used for the wire ways behind the side cabinets.
The wire way side panels, rough cut and ready for the installation of the electronics and things that are mounted on them. The side panels are used as termination points for most of the electronics in the Darts.
Side cabinets rough cut. When Steve gets some more time he typically is the one that builds these.
Second keel trunk getting dry stacked.
Second keel trunk shot and pulled off its mold. Its ready to trim and install.
Core ready to be made into bunk lids. This kind of stuff is being dovetailed with the rudder work going on.
Bunk lids being shot. When this is complete we end up with a big floppy plate of 8 lids. Then we cut them out and trim ‘em. These were shot yesterday.
All shot, bag stripped off and the back side gel coated. This was done today. Next week Tim/Tom will pull the plate of lids out and trim them up. Then we’ll reload the mold for the next set.
But.. unless we missed something, the second set of lids will be the LAST of the small parts. After that its liners, deck & hull. Then there’s the part where we put all this stuff together into a boat.
Tom sawing out a liner’s sub bulkhead. When we build the liner we infuse a bulkhead right into it that bisects the keel trunk area.
You don’t see this when the boat’s complete because the liner covers it, but its there and it spreads out much of the keel loads in the hull.
Guy finishing up his infrastructure project. About 1/10 of a second from this picture being snapped, the drill jammed in the workpiece. This ripped the vice out of its clamps and threw it past Guy smashing into a power line. The power line shorted causing the circuit breakers on the building to blow but not before it burned out the extension cord that was running the vacuum pump.
We stood there stunned going “What the heck!?”
The fiberglass debacle. Last time it was the fiberglass factory manager telling the sales rep. there was nothing he could do so we had to deal with bad glass. I assume we weren't the only customer that was.. “upset” about this turn of events. I guess it went up the chain of command and they fired the factory up made some new “better” glass and are shipping us a replacement roll.
Sounds good so far..
Yesterday Comp1, who is the dealer for said glass, sent me a bill for $700+ for the replacement roll. I promptly sent back “You do know this is a REPLACEMENT right?” And their accounting sent back some pointless platitudes, as they do. Next I was told to send them the money and they would A) Send a refund or B) Issue a credit.. This is the nonsense I woke up to this AM. Finally, the local Comp1 manager called and he seem’s to have been able to sort the accounting mess out. So, next tuesday we’ll know if the new glass will actually work.
Over 2 months of fighting just to get a simple roll of glass.
Sheesh!
Friday, February 1, 2013