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<\/a><\/p>\nI immediately thought that just putting it in a steam box would straighten it up, as it looked like this was storage damage adn that it originally had been straight.<\/p>\n
However, I didn’t really have any way to do this; the workshop I am in has no water except for a rain barrel, and there wasn’t really a good way to boil the water. I’m living on a sailboat, and it wasn’t really possible to do it on the boat either.<\/p>\n
So, I tried and succeeded to straighten it cold. Here’s how i did it.<\/p>\n
First, I soaked an old towel in the rain bucket, then wrapped it in plastic to keep evaporation down. Then , clamped it to a workbench, bending it slightly past straight.<\/p>\n
I then let it sit for 3-4 days like this. Here’s a shot of how it turned out:<\/p>\n Still not totally perfect, and. i may try and tweak it a little more, but much, much better, and well within what I would consider a more useable set of tolerances.<\/p>\n I also finished making the rub rails.<\/p>\n I went with Ipe for the rubrail. it’s very hard, durable, and everythign you’d want in a rub rail material. I bought a 20′ piece of deck lumber 3\/4 inch thick and like 5″ wide from the local Dunn Lumber<\/a>. at $3 a foot, it was pretty reasonable in cost. I had set up a table saw and cut a 1\/2″ thick piece from each side of the board, so I could retain the rounded edges that had been milled into the board. Ipe is also known as ironwood; it’s murder on tools and not having to break these edges was a boon.<\/p>\n The plan for the rub rail was to cut it to 19′ 2″; this is long enough to cover all but the front 6″ of the bow, and have a screw 1″ in from each edge and evenly spaced every foot.<\/p>\n I cut a 45 degree snipe on the back and forward edges, and marked 1″ from the end, then every foot down the leingth of that.<\/p>\n I used two A-frame ladders as a jig, and clamped a small piece of offcut Ipe to the drill press as a fence, so i would consistently drill the center.<\/p>\n I had to perform three operations on each hole; drilling the initial hole, slightly countersink the back for sealant, and the n countersink the front for the teak bungs I plan to insert.<\/p>\n Ipe is a very had wood; so dense it is heavier than water and doesn’t float. IT also likes to split without warning. So rather than use a tapered drill bit like i normally would with wood screws, I went 1\/64″ oversize for the screws i planned to use to 3\/16. I drilled the holes with a straight bit, then attached the countersink from one of my tapered drill bits.<\/p>\n Here’s the shot of the setup, drilling the bung counterbores.<\/p>\n Once I get the hull painted, these will get held into place and I will drill the hull with a standard tapered bit and install the bronze screws and teak bungs. I plan to finish the rub rail in either Simco or Teak Wonder. these are just a sealant, not a varnish so they should keep the rail looking good while not showign damage from bumps and scratches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A few weeks back I had started on my tiller\/rudder combination, and after sanding and cleaning up the tiller I had chosen to use, I realized it was bent. I immediately thought that just putting it in a steam box would straighten it up, as it looked like this was storage damage adn that it Read More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-repairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/teammonkeyfist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/teammonkeyfist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/teammonkeyfist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teammonkeyfist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teammonkeyfist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/teammonkeyfist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":706,"href":"http:\/\/teammonkeyfist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions\/706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teammonkeyfist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/teammonkeyfist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teammonkeyfist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teammonkeyfist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n