Avon SR4 Project

[Boatnomad]

Did you try Oxalic Acid?

[Chris Caton]

Originally Posted by Boatnomad

Did you try Oxalic Acid?

no, but that sounds like a plan, do you use it neat or diluted, never used it before ?

[Tim&Linda]

chris

your tubes what did you do with them , as it will be good to take a pattern of them , because I have a 5.4 and was thinking just putting another layer of hypalon over the old tubes but some advice will be great

[Boatnomad]

Originally Posted by Chris Caton

no, but that sounds like a plan, do you use it neat or diluted, never used it before ?

http://www.rib.net/forum/f8/cleaning...dry-55640.html

[whisper]

Originally Posted by Chris Caton

i've just made a start on cleaning the hull of all the black marks left by barnacles etc, never thought it would be easy, but on the other hand I wasn't expecting it to be so hard either, took me about an hour to do a patch the size of my hand. I was doing it by hand, with coarse wet n dry. What's the best method to get a good clean finish, any help would be much appreciated

It's like a staining in the gelcoat so the only way really is to take it back with wet and dry paper going up the grits to about 1500 grit and then a polish with some farcia 300 grp polish

[Chris Caton]

Originally Posted by Tim&Linda

chris

your tubes what did you do with them , as it will be good to take a pattern of them , because I have a 5.4 and was thinking just putting another layer of hypalon over the old tubes but some advice will be great

hi Tim, sorry mate, not much left of them to be honest, I wasn't thinking about them being of any use when I cut the off the hull, so a bit of a mess really. but your the 2nd person who has asked about them, they are going to a new home on Saturday, so if you want to do anything it will need to be tommorrow night

[Chris Caton]

Originally Posted by Boatnomad

http://www.rib.net/forum/f8/cleaning...dry-55640.html

thanks Boatnomad, I'll give that a try

[Chris Caton]

Originally Posted by whisper

It's like a staining in the gelcoat so the only way really is to take it back with wet and dry paper going up the grits to about 1500 grit and then a polish with some farcia 300 grp polish

thanks Whisper, I have tried wet n dry today, did get some success, but took a long time to do a small patch, n to be honest I'm not up to that much work at the moment, still getting over the chemo therapy. is a orbital sander an option with the suitable wet n dry ?

[whisper]

I use a small air powered sander now on bigger projects with about a 2" disk, however I did use a 5" sander on my sr4, have a read it might help you:

http://www.rib.net/forum/f8/whisper-...ect-38078.html

[Chris Caton]

Originally Posted by whisper

I use a small air powered sander now on bigger projects with about a 2" disk, however I did use a 5" sander on my sr4, have a read it might help you:

http://www.rib.net/forum/f8/whisper-...ect-38078.html

thanks Whisper

[whisper]

No worries, I don't think you can used wet and dry on a mechanical sander? Think you have to use sand paper, then use wet and dry by hand, I use an electric polisher to finish off

Nos just did his ballistic seat pods so maybe he can help?

[Chris Caton]

Originally Posted by whisper

No worries, I don't think you can used wet and dry on a mechanical sander? Think you have to use sand paper, then use wet and dry by hand, I use an electric polisher to finish off

Nos just did his ballistic seat pods so maybe he can help?

thanks for the info Whipser, I'll try a sander over the weekend, cheers

[Chris Caton]

collected a trailer for the SR4 project yesterday, many many thanks to Biffer for waiting for me to get down to his place to pick it up, a true gent and great to meet him got back home without a hitch, so just need a few small bits to do on it for now, the it's ready to go, absolutely made up with it
also met up with Rogue Wave while is was in the area, great to meet Stu for the first time, after a slight technical hitch with phone numbers n post codes, but eh who cares, old age comes to us all Stu
ain't Ribnet ace

[Jeff Hutcheon]

That was clever with out me, how did you get it home without a hitch??

[Chris Caton]

Originally Posted by Jeff Hutcheon

That was clever with out me, how did you get it home without a hitch??

you have got painting n decorating to do, n you were the "Hitch"

[Chris Caton]

bust day to day, fitted a new 2nd hand jockey wheel clamp as I couldn't move the old'un, works like a gud'un now stripped the wheel bearings and give em a good clean n greasing, think I'll get some new ones, better safe than sorry

[PeterM]

Originally Posted by Chris Caton

bust day to day, fitted a new 2nd hand jockey wheel clamp as I couldn't move the old'un, works like a gud'un now stripped the wheel bearings and give em a good clean n greasing, think I'll get some new ones, better safe than sorry

Great stuff Chris...did a set today in ten minutes flat(hub and bearing) . Such a good feeling to hear nothing when you spin the wheels...

[mister p]

Anybody seen an SR4 trailer sized LHS galvanised mudguard lying around near the A303? :-)After getting the SR4 wet off Fowey on some lumpy sea, I want to be out there again.
That A frame looks good. Might work well in carbon if the design is available to be used??
I have a pattern for late 80's early 90's tubes for my SR which appears to have same hull strakes and transom supports as CC's.

[Chris Caton]

Originally Posted by PeterM

Great stuff Chris...did a set today in ten minutes flat(hub and bearing) . Such a good feeling to hear nothing when you spin the wheels...

I couldn't hear anything either, but that was due to noise the bearings were making think I was a touch lucky getting back home, but still made it with no fuss

[Tim&Linda]

Chris
send me those bearing sizes