The end of the old paint

Another ebay find, 1 and a 1/2 E60 evinrudes.. a nice chap in Airdre sold me these.. A fair bit of work needed.. main unit at the front has a holed piston, other powerhead/casing I think is quite siezed.. all needs to be stripped, cleaned, measured, painted, gaskets and a lot more.. will be a background job for the next few weeks..

A large cork sheet, courtesy of ebay and £10... Will remake gaskets for powerhead from this, just to see if the engine will run ok to begin with.. Useful stuff to have around, glad I got plenty,,,,

Finally, after a few hours pain, the black has gone, and good ridance....

The orange is the old coat and the yellow is the Gelcoat... I think my earlier worries were false..

2 Brand new seats! they are the colour I wanted the boat to end up, near enough! cheap and seem perfect size for a small boat.. will get two more to face backwards.. only thing, I feel very high up in them as they are! The slightly less raked screen may help here, and also I may make the bases tilt back a touch.. any comments on seat height/ person height welcome as I have no idea..

its hard to see.. odd that the orange is in the middle of the sanded area, I thought it was above the light-brown, assuming the orange is the gel coat?

The left over black, peels off in sheets in places.. however, some heavy sanding has gone through black, red, and orange to the colour below, in one small place.. as of tonight most of the black is still on there too.. Couldn't risk painting with such a dark colour left on the boat.. hope I havent made a big error here..

The first ever time I have heard this run....
Problems with the gaskets leaking, causing cooling water and Exhaust to mix, I think..thicker gasket material on way, to see if it fixes problem.. sounds meatier than it does in real life!..


If the screen was made from something solid, it would stand up by itself.. the top is not a curve, but I will modify the diagram to make it one, before the drawing goes off to the plastics factory. I may yet cut a ply version to be sure..

However, when in position, its pretty close.. It may not 'lay back' as much as it could, making it taller, but that may not be a bad thing.. (see above)

A change of tack, i decided to print the screen that a fellow boat owner had given to me as X / Y coordinates... office roll printer very handy :) - this screen was for a shakespeare clubman, slightly different from my boat.. I cut this carefully, leaving the small tranparent polygons at each end of the shape.

The gaskets, paper was too thin for the warpage.. two thick ones would have been better than 4..

Warpage on the engine seal plate.. I did a 40 Mile trip during lunch, to a engineering shop who normally do Headskimming, thinking this would be a walk in the park, they wouldn't touch it :( then I tried hours of rubbing on wet/dry on a flat surface and made little inroads.. in the end I tried doubling up on the gaskets.. its worth pointing out that at this point, the engine had never run (in my possesion)..