OK, I have received several postings and PM's about people interested in the crackerboxes that I made for the cubscouts. Well, we made our four and have not run them together yet due to summer, vacations and such, but they do run well.
Build thread is here:
http://forums.offshoreelectrics.com/...ad.php?t=12753
I form the hull from .060 HIPS, the deck and hatch from .040 HIPS. I am not an expert vacuum former by a long shot and there are flaws on the hull. In some of the photos, you can see the "ripple" in the plastic on the sides and transom near the bottom. The inside is smooth, but this little ripple does appear. On ours, we did not worry about them. They can be sanded out before painting though. Also, on some of the decks you can see where a small crack from the plug showed in the plastic. Not all of the hulls, but some of them. Again, it could be sanded out.
The back half of the hull is roughed up on the inside with sand paper for future reinforcement. Both halves are trimmed up and glued together. the 5.7 oz kevlar/carbon reinforcement is then epoxied into the hull. After that a 1/8" plywood transom is also epoxied into the hull with microballoons. makes a thicker paste to fill voids behind the transom plywood - very strong. the front of the hull is filled with two part foam, 2 lbs per cubic foot density. some of them have another piece of HIPS on the foam just to dress them up, some don't. Final weight on these without hatch is 13.1 to 14.1 oz
The hatch is vacuum formed, but it has a web between the drives head. (The following still needs to be done, I have done this on our hulls. First the inside of the helmets are roughed up and epoxied were the web is. Then the web can be cut out and sanded down. You can see it, but it looks pretty good.)
Vac-u-boat makes a really nice kit and offers all kind of parts to finish the boat. The basic kit of just the formed plastic pieces that you then need to trim and glue together is $58 shipped. Thier plastic work is probably much better than mine, I do not do this professionally.
Pricing:
Hull as shown, joined, kevlar/carbon fabric, plywood transom, foamed bow and hatch cover: $65 +,shipping.
I could also do just the three pieces vacuum formed, ready to be trimmed and joined. No work done other than forming for $25 + shipping
Feedback request:
Below are some photos and I will be posting more information on the hardware that I made for these boats. I am looking for what people think these may be worth as described above, hull and hatch only ready for you to install hardware in. Is $65 + shipping out of line? would you expect more or less? Please give me some feedback please, I can take it
Build thread is here:
http://forums.offshoreelectrics.com/...ad.php?t=12753
I form the hull from .060 HIPS, the deck and hatch from .040 HIPS. I am not an expert vacuum former by a long shot and there are flaws on the hull. In some of the photos, you can see the "ripple" in the plastic on the sides and transom near the bottom. The inside is smooth, but this little ripple does appear. On ours, we did not worry about them. They can be sanded out before painting though. Also, on some of the decks you can see where a small crack from the plug showed in the plastic. Not all of the hulls, but some of them. Again, it could be sanded out.
The back half of the hull is roughed up on the inside with sand paper for future reinforcement. Both halves are trimmed up and glued together. the 5.7 oz kevlar/carbon reinforcement is then epoxied into the hull. After that a 1/8" plywood transom is also epoxied into the hull with microballoons. makes a thicker paste to fill voids behind the transom plywood - very strong. the front of the hull is filled with two part foam, 2 lbs per cubic foot density. some of them have another piece of HIPS on the foam just to dress them up, some don't. Final weight on these without hatch is 13.1 to 14.1 oz
The hatch is vacuum formed, but it has a web between the drives head. (The following still needs to be done, I have done this on our hulls. First the inside of the helmets are roughed up and epoxied were the web is. Then the web can be cut out and sanded down. You can see it, but it looks pretty good.)
Vac-u-boat makes a really nice kit and offers all kind of parts to finish the boat. The basic kit of just the formed plastic pieces that you then need to trim and glue together is $58 shipped. Thier plastic work is probably much better than mine, I do not do this professionally.
Pricing:
Hull as shown, joined, kevlar/carbon fabric, plywood transom, foamed bow and hatch cover: $65 +,shipping.
I could also do just the three pieces vacuum formed, ready to be trimmed and joined. No work done other than forming for $25 + shipping
Feedback request:
Below are some photos and I will be posting more information on the hardware that I made for these boats. I am looking for what people think these may be worth as described above, hull and hatch only ready for you to install hardware in. Is $65 + shipping out of line? would you expect more or less? Please give me some feedback please, I can take it
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