NewKindOfClown

This attitude makes you better than Shirley. You can replace him since you have a Mazda3 and a Jeep.

abe froman

fify...

jk. nice looking yj btw.

96xjclassic

↑↑↑ He makes a great point.

NewKindOfClown

Get herpes, ****dick.

And thanks.

abe froman

fify...again.

NewKindOfClown

Missed ya, Abe.

gone4x4

welcome back

Pudgy Fingers

you're a dick.

sycoglitch

Yes, driveshaft goin back on Tuesday. Need to celebrate and gets to wheeling

abe froman

sooo awhile back i noticed that my tin boat had a little flex in the transom at wide open throttle and also when manually tilting the motor so the prop wouldn't hit the ground when launching. so then i went to thehulltruth.com to read about transoms and whether they should flex a little and the consensus was pretty much that the transom should not flex any. i didn't create an account to ask about my specific application because asking dudes that can build bluewater capable sailboats out of yard scraps about a piece of plywood on a 14' tinny never goes well for any noob, self included.

so then i thought about cyber stalking the guy that sold me the tinny cuz how the heck does a 5 year old boat have a rotten transom already? then i remembered that saying "caveat emptor" and realized that i should have researched boats before buying one.

and then friday night i got some coveted ALONE TIME when my woman that i'm taking to the dance went to some overpriced tapas bar in nw dc to do whatever it is she enjoys doing in them. probably giving out shirleys for free drinks. which is a-ok, so long as i get my alone time.

which i obviously used to rip apart the tinny. exhibit A


of course before i could ****** that glorious photo, i had to round out a few philips screw heads since the dudes that designed the tinny like jokes. such as, "let's put philips heads on the opposite end of of hex nuts, that way, should they ever be on there real good, the poor sob trying to undo them will have to go buy the biggest, meanest set of vice grips the groovy ace hardware in takoma park has to offer." so saturday morning i went and bought vice grips that i'll probably never use again, but it was fun.

(to the keen eyed, yes that's a fire extinguisher mounted in the worst place possible, out of the way and next to or behind the only things in the tinny that could ever catch fire. i'm just keeping it legal. if the thing ever ignites for some weird reason, i'm simply jumping off, swimming ashore and going home. my loss. someone else can take what's left of it home or wherever. that simple.)

but before that happens, i want my back end to be solid, just in case things ever get rough out there, ya know?

so after i buy my vice gripping tool, that worked wonderfully, i went to home depot o'er in college park cuz i like to drive around and spread the wealth. and selection. i like that too. after talking to 2 people that didn't know what plywood is, i found a guy that knew what plywood is, but could not suggest what would be best for marine use. so i went home, but not without first buying new bolts since the oem ones were bent to hell for some reason...probably something to do w/ the rotten plywood.

the man guarding the bolts said galvanized would never rust. then back home the internet says that if i take my boat in saltwater, they'll instantly dissolve and that i should have gotten stainless. i'm going to roll the dice and put the galvanized bolts in, i mostly run in fresh water anyways because ducking n dodging the wakes of boats that cost more than i'll ever make in my life gets old quick out on all them little finger things on a map of the chesapeake.

so this is getting long. but, i was gunning for a thousand or more words because that's how many a picture is worth and i have a few. so to recap, i got vice grips and galvanized bolts that might self destruct in salt water but no new plywood.

so i called my dad , who has half my vocabulary but 10x my resolve...he wrenched on tractors for most of his 20's before working another 20 years in a factory before moving to the backwoods of the northwoods of wisconsin and starting his own painting business. and he said, "why don't you just get a 2x10 board and have a cabinet shop plane it to 1.125" thick?" (that's how thick the transom needs to be) and to that, i said, "thank's dad, i hadn't thought of that." and then we talked about other stuff and he's totally cool about me keeping the xj, thank god.

so before doing that 2x10 thing, i went back to the hull truth and they said that a 2x10 piece of douglas fir will work for most small tinny applications, but exterior grade plywood is preferred because the plywood will flex "a little" under load whereas the board will crack. so fml, maybe i tore my boat apart for nothing. but i'd just bought the vice grips. point of no return.

so i set out to lowe's up in laurel. who knew they were open till 10 on a saturday? they are and they know about plywood . and since i only needed a piece that's roughly 8.75" tall x 56" wide x 1.125" deep, the guy suggested a 17 dollar sheet of 3/8" that tripled up, will equal 9/8" which is the same as 1.125. things were looking up. so i had them cut the 8x4 sheet of plywood into strips i could work with and bought a 40 dollar black and decker battery powered jig saw type thing....that needed to charge 10 hours before use. so i charged that hoss up and did other stuff last night in anticipation of never using it again after cutting my boards to spec.

and i was totally wrong! i'll totally be using that jig saw again because brand new on a full charge it only cut out 1 and a half of 3 needed transom cut outs. that was a poorly constructed sentence so i'll say it again. that saw sucks, never buy it if you intend to cut more than 10 board feet on a single charge.

i manged to get two of my three boards cut tho. see check it out.

and then i had to charge the saw more. here is where we charge things in my home.

BUT WAIT. it gets better. while i was doing all that, turns out the woman can cook. so she made a couple cornish hens and packed their butts with rice and onions and peppers and magic. they came out great. and then she had the audacity to make a key lime pie from scratch and garnish it with effin strawberries. like just to be cocky. since i can't even replace a 1.125" piece of plywood that's held to my boat by 7 little bolts in less than 3 days. and she can do all that in like 4 hours.

i'm so mad i want to jam a remote control in the general vicinity of my butt crack, like that kid on youtube when his brother deletes his wow account.

96xjclassic

Abe you're a treat sometimes.



Morning guys.

gone4x4

gawd, i hope i aint got no wuud in my transom.

NewKindOfClown

A wooden Trans-Am doesn't sound too great.

my89xj

First days of classes today. Also found a redneck frat, very chill guys. Pretty much like my friends back home.

NewKindOfClown

Hazing ceremony in one word: Deliverance