Baseplate Painting

[TheBiscuits]

7 minutes ago, rusty69 said:

True,but you can stand on the roof (was the base). Easier than crawling around underneath.

But the roof will be underneath 'cos the boat is upside down.

If you think the baseplate becomes the roof when you do this, don't use a dry dock!

[rusty69]

3 minutes ago, TheBiscuits said:

But the roof will be underneath 'cos the boat is upside down.

If you think the baseplate becomes the roof when you do this, don't use a dry dock!

If you do go to the great trouble of inverting your boat, don't forget to Turtle wax it.

[Tim Lewis]

6 hours ago, rusty69 said:

Having diy blacked ours a number of times. It is significantly easier to do if the boat is higher off the ground (obviously). 

We do Fulbourne in the indoor heated slipway at Aylesbury Circus Fields Marina, easy peasy :-)

 

 

Tim

Edited February 16, 2018 by Tim Lewis

[rusty69]

3 minutes ago, Tim Lewis said:

We do ours in the indoor heated slipway at Aylesbury Circus Fields Marina, easy peasy :-)

 

 

Tim

With an adjustable floor to get you closer/further away. Dead posh.If only there was one with a conveyor belt and mini bar

Still a grim job either way.

Edited February 16, 2018 by rusty69

[Chewbacka]

I worked in a car plant and in the press shop you were required to wear a hard hat in case the crane slings failed, not sure what a hard hat would do when the dies weighed up to 30 tonnes.  Anyway, surprised the safety officer let you off wearing one when under you boat.

[TheBiscuits]

3 hours ago, Tim Lewis said:

We do Fulbourne in the indoor heated slipway at Aylesbury Circus Fields Marina, easy peasy :-)

That's nearly as cushy as getting someone else to do it while you go to the pub!

[Midnight]

On 2/16/2018 at 01:21, Mike the Boilerman said:

Basically you can do 90% of it, but not the bits sitting on the stocks.

Unless you fill the dock, move the boat up a bit, then empty it and wait for the hull to dry out again. 

I always paint the base plate. To get to the strips where the boat is laid on the 3 stanchions is relatively easy using a 20 ton bottle jack and a railway sleeper size piece of oak. The boat only needs to be 20mm clear of the end stanchion to enable the middle stanchion to be moved too. Before dropping it back down I put cardboard between the stanchion and newly blacked plate to stop it from sticking.

[Tim Lewis]

On ‎16‎/‎02‎/‎2018 at 01:21, Mike the Boilerman said:

Basically you can do 90% of it, but not the bits sitting on the stocks.

Unless you fill the dock, move the boat up a bit, then empty it and wait for the hull to dry out again. 

Filling the dock and moving the boat & then emptying the lock  is about 30 minutes work. Also you can dry few square feet of baseplate where the girders were using a blow torch or fan heater. All in all about an hours work

Tim

[David Mack]

On 16/02/2018 at 17:50, Chewbacka said:

I worked in a car plant and in the press shop you were required to wear a hard hat in case the crane slings failed, not sure what a hard hat would do when the dies weighed up to 30 tonnes.  Anyway, surprised the safety officer let you off wearing one when under you boat.

In Tim's picture Elaine is wearing her special hard hat boatwoman's bonnet!

[Dave_P]

On 16/02/2018 at 17:50, Chewbacka said:

I worked in a car plant and in the press shop you were required to wear a hard hat in case the crane slings failed, not sure what a hard hat would do when the dies weighed up to 30 tonnes.  Anyway, surprised the safety officer let you off wearing one when under you boat.

The hard hat would have been in case you banged your head on something.  Not to prevent a crushing injury, irrespective of what anyone there told you.

Edited February 22, 2018 by Dave_P