1969 Mustang Stringer Rebuild

David,
Look'n great. I especially like the vinyl wall covering for the floor - Yes, keep it ORIGINAL!!! Where did you find it?

Here's a few.



Note the cast iron wedge.




Vinyl Sample


All painted up








Pretty much at the assembly stage. Have to glass in my gas tank risers and glue the vinyl down. Still have some through-hull hardware to install.

Keeganino wrote: We need some new pics! Got to be exciting putting it back together!

vondy wrote: I'll get some pics up soon, I'm pretty much working nonstop on the thing so hard to get pics uploaded. And work is busy so can't do it up there either. Should have some up tomorrow.

I sure hope you're taking time out to get laid!!

We need some new pics! Got to be exciting putting it back together!

DrCC wrote: 7 days?   You sure it's not 72 hours? 3 days, you should be good to go.

Al,
It's 7 days! You don't have some around to look at the instructions?

David,
You'll be fine. The 7 days is for a full cure/full strength. Spray some water on it - it's a moisture cure and giving it some moisture will speed it up.

David,
I knew Ted could help out. The last time I was at his house, borrowing his valve grinder for my Flexifour rebuild, I saw a box of the wedges.

BTW, I've mentioned Ted several times. He's retired and now does engine rebuilds. Pretty much Chris/Hercules and Gray's but others too. I hope you said hello for me!

Roger, your absolutely right and you probably already know this, but the adjustable mounts in your picture look to be OMC's (not PCM's).

The reason CC was probably able to get away with wedges only in back was that they likely placed the engine down in the boat and did not drill the lag holes until everything was lined up. Having front/back adjustability as well as up/down in the back is probably enough to align it. You would have the same luxury since youre replacing the stringers.

Thanks Pete!

I just got off the phone with Ted, he's sending me 4 of the small ones today. Hopefully I'll get them by Saturday. He suggest the longer ones but those are 9 inches long and I know I didn't leave that much of a notch in my floors for those. So getting the smaller 6 inch ones, pretty much the same length as my last ones.

Originally I only had wedges in the back. Not sure how they ever thought you could align it perfectly without some for the front.

I would love anything that is easier to adjust. You say they basically have slots to slide the wedges up and down? That way you don't have to re drill if you have to make an adjustment. You think you could get me some? Before the stringer job I used 4 wedges, two for the front because I could not get the alignment right without adjusting the front.

I measured my old lags and they are 1/2 inch diameter and 6 inches long. What do you think Pete? I know you got some wedges on your boat

So I just got back from a shop down the street that specializes in screw, bolts, etc. They did not have any hanger bolts in stainless, neither did the hardware store I went to. Don't even see any on McMaster's. There are some here hangers they have 5 and 6 inchers. What size diameter is normal for the mounts? 3/8?

So there you go David. Pete has just completely over engineered your mounting bolt issue on a reasonable budget. That's the way it should be.

Pete, we are so blessed to have you on this site. You are the rarest form of engineer; anally meticulous and yet practical. In my experience most engineers can't build a shoe box if their mother's life depended on it. But you could give it a helm an engine and a prop.

God knew Jesus couldn't be here for a while so he gave us ski boats to walk on water with. Then he gave us Pete to keep us from screwing them up.

Ahhh...the ones off 41 are on your left. I did not build those but if I remember correctly there were about 80 there. My direct responsibility was for Bluesky/ Greenfields which were actually two farms rolled into one representing 88 turbines off of 151 near Malone. In relative terms the Wisconsin turbines were actually some of the smaller turbines I installed. Only 1.67 MW compared to the more typical 2.1MW and some 2.5MW I had put up. My function was as the Civil Construction Manager which means I was responsible for coordination of all of the construction from the clearing of trees to the erection and final walkdowns excluding tower wiring and substation. I was also indirectly involved with Cedar Ridge which has another 50 turbines or so and is also in the same area.

They are literally beyond the imagination they are so large Pete. I was in constant amazement everyday.

8122pbrainard wrote: TX Wind wrote: Absolutely, positively stainless. You've put the last stringer job you should have to do in a lifetime in there right? So why not the last bolt as well? Jeff, I can tell you haven't been around wood boats very much!!!    Lifetime? You are optimistic!!!! Guess what, stainless rusts if kept moist!! There are those that made the mistake of using them for their wood boat restorations.

Pete, I was overstating it a bit as a compliment to the fine job he has done on the stringers. I do know that stainless will rust. My father is a marine contractor remember?

However, your suggestion with epoxy setting the bolts is an excellent one. We used epoxy set in the wind industry to set foundation bolts into the bedrock. We tensioned the bolts to 620,000 pounds. I never calculated it but they told me that it would launch a 4.25" Nut about 5 miles if it broke. The thrust vector equivalent at the top is the same as a 757 so the foundation is under a dynamic torquing load in excess of 22,000,000 foot lbs. This often exceeds the compressive strength of even the best concrete, so epoxy bedding is also used to create the foot for the tower and spread the load across the concrete foundation to prevent pulverizing the concrete. Epoxy is some good *************** David. Our field break tests of our epoxy were around 18,000 psi for compressive strength compared to 3000 for the typical sidewalk.

By the way Pete. Since you're a Wisconsin boy, I built a couple of the windfarms up by Fond du Lac. I worked for Alliant Energy and we built a windfarm for Wisconsin Energy. Talk about awkward since they are competitors. And cold? You guys have to be kidding me. I'm still defrosting. I'll take a TX 100 over a Wisconsin -20 any day of the week.

Oh and for the record Pete, we used a different foundation in Wisconsin.