[Public-List] Cockpit floor hatch?

[Glenn Brooks via Public-List]

John,

I can take a couple of photos tomorrow and email to you and Gord to,post on the web site.  As you know we can't post photos on this list as it is ancient technology.

I replaced the cockpit floor 5 or 6 years ago and don't think I have any pics of the rebuild hang around. Actually I might, but will need to dig around on my old computer to see if I can find them.

It's actually very easy to describe - cut away the entire cockpit floor and with the whole floor gone, build a ledge with foam core to support the new floor.  Prefabed the new floor with hatch, and lateral reinforcing strips every 12" in my shop and laid it on top of the ledge, bedded in FG structural putty, then tabbed the whole thing in with multiple layers mat and roving around the top and as much of the underneath as I could reach.  Before the floor went back in, Also laid in battery boxes, degreased and painted the engine compartment and aft bilge, and heavily reinforced the bronze rudder tube assembly with fiberglass mat and roving as it was leaking and loose. So resolved a bunch of issues in one fell swoop, more or less. 

Glenn B.
Dolce, 318


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> On May 29, 2015, at 11:13 AM, John Johnston <danceswithwood at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> Hey Glenn - Is it possible to post pictures of both the process and the result of your hatch?