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Bulkhead 3 fits ?? Or not - makeshift bearer needed?

by Paolo Stella

Jan 7, 2021

HELP.

I am fitting the bulkheads in the lower hulls 

and having a really hard time the lower hull sides 

are perfect for bkhd #3 sides but the floor bearer sticks up and

needs to go down 15 mm more to rest flush on the 

backbone . Solutions I have thought of : 1)  plane 7 mm off

the lower edge of the sides and raise the backbone by the needed

15 mm or 2) makeshift bearer to lower the floor by the needed

15 mm.

I have heard another builder with the same problem

and he adopted solutions 2 (makeshift bearer) my engineer

soul is in turmoil ... anyone found a solution?

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    Paolo Stella

    Jan 13, 2021

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    Gottfried Winter

    dear Paolo,

    it understand, thanks for the photos. I think the solution 2 will work because the floor is also fixed by the sidewalls with the epoxy seam.

    I again checkt my photos from this working stage, but I can´t remember that situation. during assembling you will be faced with a lot of tolerances which, most of them, can be solved by a little bigger gluing seam. 

    So I hope I could help you a little bit. keep on doing and have fun with your boat. attached I send you the photo what I found about my BH3 situaiton 
    many greating 

    Gottfried

    Jan 14, 2021

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    Paolo Stella

    Thanks Gottfried you’ve been of great help and consolation for

    my angered engineer’s soul. I’ll try and minimize discrepancies filling

    with epoxy where needed. I’ll use this discussion to post more photos as I 

    make progress . If you will you could alert me if you see anything wrong .
    thanks again . All the best.

    Paolo

    Jan 14, 2021