Yet another core question...

[TNRIVERRAT]

Thi is under the float boxes that I removed. If you can tell from the pictures it looks like two layers. It's a core sandwich so to speak So my question is when removing the core do I just take off the top layer of fiberglass and the core and leave the bottom layer(so to speak)? Any advice would be appreciated Thanks.

[varmint1]

The core is over the floor about 2 inches ,I think that's what I'm looking at , I would remove all of it and get down to the original hull

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[Rut311969]

Yep thats core the Vectors are layed up that way as the Viper are'nt .

[varmint1]

I know on the vectors,vipers, and varmints that the floor is installed then the gunnels core is install and it goes over the edge of the floor about 2 inches

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[TNRIVERRAT]

So under the core there is resin between the core and the hull?

[alaskastreamin]

They say a picture is worth a thousand words.....
This is how your hull is made except instead of 1/4" foam, you have 1/2" balsa.


After you remove the top fiberglass skin, scrape out the balsa and rough up the surface that's left and put it back together. Sounds so simple.

[TNRIVERRAT]

Alaska, that's exactly what I was looking for. Thank you very much. Sometimes I can be a might slow lol

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[varmint1]

There is no such thing as a dumb question when it comes to rebuilding these boats , I've ask my share of questions and the guys here sure have helped me learn a lot

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[TNRIVERRAT]

Why it there a gap underneath that lower layer? Or will that gap go away as I grind back towards where the float box used to be?

[varmint1]

If I'm seeing right that's the floor register, after they install the floor they glass over it then the put the funnel core, so that's the glass that was over the floor. Yes as you grind it it will fad away to the original hull

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