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Re: Skin-on-Frame: Coaming help needed
By:David, Tasmania
Date: 12/6/2008, 4:23 am
In Response To: Re: Skin-on-Frame: Coaming help needed (Bill Hamm)

Hi Jeff
okay you have a base plate for the coaming that sits on the forms fore and aft of the cockpit space. The skin passes over that baseplate. You staple the skin to the baseplate. Once you have the skin stapled onto the baseplate you can cut out the middle of the skin to make the cockpit space, you can do this later as well if you use the dowel technique. Then you have your stacked riser and coaming lip. Drill some holes , you can either come down through the lip and riser and through the baseplate or you can come up through the baseplate into the riser. For the first method I put 8 thin dowels down for the permanent fixation of the riser to the base plate, the other way you use some screws. I have done both, the dowels are easier. I used a thin bead of silicone between the skin and the riser to stop leakage.
I have also taken the coaming off one that had been screwed in about 18 months after original assembly, not a fun job hence my use of dowels the next time round.
hope this makes sense
cheers
David

Messages In This Thread

Skin-on-Frame: Coaming help needed
Kudzu -- 12/5/2008, 7:15 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Coaming help needed *Pic*
Kudzu -- 12/7/2008, 9:07 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Coaming help needed
DARYL FOWLER -- 12/10/2008, 4:22 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Coaming help needed *LINK*
Kudzu -- 12/10/2008, 8:43 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Coaming help needed
Don Lucas -- 12/7/2008, 9:48 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Coaming help needed *LINK*
Brian Nystrom -- 12/6/2008, 7:30 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Coaming help needed
Bill Hamm -- 12/6/2008, 1:52 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Coaming help needed
David, Tasmania -- 12/6/2008, 4:23 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Coaming help needed
William Clarke -- 12/7/2008, 10:20 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Coaming help needed
Bill Hamm -- 12/7/2008, 12:48 am
Traditoinal style coaming
Kudzu -- 12/6/2008, 10:01 am
Re: Traditoinal style coaming
Bill Hamm -- 12/7/2008, 12:54 am
Re: Traditoinal style coaming
Aaron H -- 12/7/2008, 11:49 pm
Re: Traditoinal style coaming
Bill Hamm -- 12/8/2008, 12:44 am
Re: Traditoinal style coaming *LINK*
Mike Bielski -- 12/6/2008, 2:31 pm
Re: Traditoinal style coaming
Mike Savage -- 12/6/2008, 3:45 pm
Re: Traditoinal style coaming
Mike Bielski -- 12/6/2008, 5:46 pm
Re: Traditoinal style coaming
Mike Savage -- 12/7/2008, 8:04 am
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Glen Smith -- 12/6/2008, 6:09 pm
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gennady_resnik -- 12/5/2008, 7:59 pm
Re: Solving problems is not your strong point
Andy Waddington -- 12/7/2008, 9:50 am
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Joe Greenley -- 12/6/2008, 12:24 am
Re: Solving problems is not your strong point
Don Lucas -- 12/6/2008, 9:38 am
Re: Solving problems is not your strong point
danper -- 12/6/2008, 1:42 pm
Re: Solving problems is not your strong point
Kudzu -- 12/6/2008, 2:00 pm
Re: Solving problems is not your strong point
george jung -- 12/8/2008, 11:58 pm
Re: Solving problems is not your strong point
Kudzu -- 12/5/2008, 8:32 pm
Sharing information is the point of the forum
Brian Nystrom -- 12/6/2008, 7:23 pm
OK now I understand somewhat
Kudzu -- 12/5/2008, 7:58 pm
Re: OK now I understand somewhat *Pic*
Dave Gentry -- 12/6/2008, 8:42 am