Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Glueing of the Gunnle

Also on the 16th, we were glueing on the Gunnles,

Makeing the glue: in order to glue the gunnle the glue we were mixing had to the thick and not watery, the reason for that is because the gunnles are on the sides and if you put running glue it will jst slide of the gunnle while if you place on thicker glue it will stick and not slip of it while putting into place.

Once the glue was fixed we had to put on the glue really fast onto the gunnles befor it gets dryed up.
When we spread out the glue onto the gunnle we had some problems putting it into place because every time we tryed to place it onto the Quater it kept slideing.

The solution to this was to screw it into place starting from the Stem working all the way down to the Transom and also clamping it along the way so the glue will squeeze out.

After the Port side gunnle was all glued into place we moved on to glue the Starboard side.
We were abit short on man power once we started glueing on the Starboard gunnle so some of the other teams helped us out ( thanks to them we finished the job haha ).
Once we started to glue the gunnle we got the same measurements from the Port side gunnle so they would both looks the same and fair.

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