Thursday, December 6, 2018

Big dip in the outer starboard batten

Once again, the title pretty much says it all. There's a significant low spot in the starboard outer floor batten, and it needs to be filled. 

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Here's an updated graphic to help explain some of this stuff. The problem area is located on the starboard outer batten, in "Zone 2" between Frame #2 and Frame #4. The board is a little warped, to put it simply. This warp is creating a low spot on the batten.

Here's my piece of test plywood stretched across Frame#4:


Not bad. Now, here's the test plywood stretched across Frame #2:


Again, not bad. But, now let's take a look at the midway point between Frame #2 and Frame #4:


Yikes. Look closer:


Granted, the fairing isn't done yet. However, if you look at the angle of the batten in the middle of the dip, you'll see this clearly is not acceptable:


The only option is to fill in this low spot. I have the shim pieces cut. Now, I just need to laminate them onto the batten.




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