Replace floor with??

[smokeonthewater]

A heat lamp or halogen light goes a long way to kick off the resin

[Huron Blue]

Originally Posted by smokeonthewater

A heat lamp or halogen light goes a long way to kick off the resin

Yea I set up a heater under it. It's starting to set up.

[Destroyer]

Strips will work, but the strongest floor will be if you use odd shaped pieces of wood, like a jig saw puzzle made of different sized rectangles. You don't want long longitudinal or vertical seams, since the seams themselves are only resin with no wood and so will be weak points in the floor. Understand I'm being picky here. Like I said, strips will work, just pieces are better.

[Huron Blue]

Originally Posted by Destroyer

Strips will work, but the strongest floor will be if you use odd shaped pieces of wood, like a jig saw puzzle made of different sized rectangles. You don't want long longitudinal or vertical seams, since the seams themselves are only resin with no wood and so will be weak points in the floor. Understand I'm being picky here. Like I said, strips will work, just pieces are better.

I am going to add support in two places. The rib between the stringers I will extent up to support the repaired cover. This is directly under the seat weight so should work great. And another one over the gas tank that is supported on each side with those L brackets to the stringers. I'll resin and cloth the new support as well. It is a bad design I think that there was no support and all the weight is on that lip on the cover the 3/4" wood itself isn't even directly supported it is relying solely on the resin and cloth. For something so effective and so easy I have no idea why they didn't do this. Time and money I guess...

[Huron Blue]

Just about done now I think one of the reasons it's best to do pieces is a sheet of plywood is naturally not perfectly flat. Doing it in pieces helps straighten that out and easier to judge and deal with the resin mixing when your not doing a lot at once. I had an issue once after only a few minutes my resin bucket got too hot to touch and it wasted about 1/2 a gallon! Guess I should have kept it on ice or something? But ever since then I've been a little gun shy of mixing a lot at once.

[reelapeelin]

Nice job, Huron...only thing I would add is bevel the edges where your fabric lays over the ends of your strips...makes it easier for the fabric to lay down and helps prevent air bubbles under it...

I did my '84 cuddy when I first got it and darned if I didn't FORGET the step where you glass it to the underside of the fiberglass and weight it down like you wisely did...duh!

[Huron Blue]

Originally Posted by reelapeelin

Nice job, Huron...only thing I would add is bevel the edges where your fabric lays over the ends of your strips...makes it easier for the fabric to lay down and helps prevent air bubbles under it...

I did my '84 cuddy when I first got it and darned if I didn't FORGET the step where you glass it to the underside of the fiberglass and weight it down like you wisely did...duh!

I did belt sand the edges down a little should have done more it did try and lift the fabric but it eventually got sticky enough to stay down. Man it's solid now!!!

I've have a lot of those WTF did I just do!! Moments myself? ha