Posted on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 10:41 pm:
getting worry about many cracks on lower body of my max after "hard playing" over rocks and metal scrap that ovious affect the flotation capacity without notice i deside to built in a fiberglass jacket on the lower part of max.....after 5 square yards of fiberglass cloth and 2 gallon of fiberglass resin and 125 rivets ( because fiberglass doesnot hold strong on plastic) this job get done!!!....during another rough voyage over rocks i found that this fiberglass job max into a very rigid structure so no more back seat motion while traveling....WHAT AN IMPROVEMENT!!! not to mention that no more cracks on lowerbody!!!
Posted on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 10:41 pm:
HEY ED: now max float on same capacity BUT WITH CONFIDENCE!!!...each gallon of fiberglass resin weight about 7 pounds....each yard of matt/robin cloth weight about 3 pounds...bounch of 1/4" x 1/2" aluminium rivets..half pound....total added weight......7 x 2 (14) + 3 x 4 (12) = 26 pounds
i still hits rocks and metallic object without a scratch (of course on low speed) where the abs use to just rip off leaving max amphibious feature disable without notice!!!!...it's a great improvement..about $ 50.00 material cost (incluiding black tint that was added to "fresh" resin so bottom of max still on "permanent" black gloss finish ..ofcourse that the rule's 1000 gph 1 1/8" discharge bilge pump still there!!!..photos from this process are avaliable thru e-mail on request...
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