Made a big screw-up on port light install and now having to redo them. Lessons learned, stronger adhesives are not always better, expired adhesives are never...

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so the sexy port lights STD started to

detach and actually these ones are

completely now detached thank you to a

boning knife and a sharp chisel so

really the problem is this 3m urethane I

used a tube of it that it expired okay

four years ago dumb idea and yeah I'm

paying for that now anyway yeah so this

this product eighty six oh nine I don't

think it's the right way to go even even

the window ports that we're puttin with

the the new tube it's okay but it's not

great not great adhesion so I'm I'm

gonna gonna go a different route anyway

these ones are out the other side the

other side is still in these ones really

still are reasonably well attached

nonetheless I'm going to pull them out

and do them a little better so here's

the new process the inside of the port

lights taped off and it's been sanded

around the edge where the contact will

be six six flex to 95 UV that is a

little softer just as flexible as the 3m

product but softer and I think more

compatible with the the acrylic also

with that is a Sikka 209 n primer so

that primer goes on the the plastic

surface

all our acrylic plastic surface all the

way around the edge sits for a couple

hours and then bond the window much in

the same way I'm gonna do a little

better job of really pressing the window

in and getting a good pressure fit to

activate the high bond tape I found it

some areas I missed when I was pulling

the windows out it was clear so I'll

I'll do a little better job of pushing

pushing them in making sure that tape is

fully adhered anyway it's kind of a day

wasted and a couple hundred dollars

worth of materials but lesson learned

well cut the windows all taped up again

ready to give this another go pretty

much same approach other and I'm gonna

make sure I really really push those

windows down really well make sure that

bond is really really well sealed using

the different adhesive too and the

primers I've been put on the air we are

with the plexi curly and that's jewel 9

seconds can put around the edges so I'm

gonna peel the tape off put down a bead

of of the sealant and start putting them

on one at a time it's pretty cool

just pull the tape off and ready to put

this on

I did add tape on the edge of the plexi

this time just make it easier to clean

up because you can't touch this stuff

with any kind of solvent it just cracks

it there we go

ready to place the a'carly can place

there I got the port lights back in

feeling better this time about how

they're sealed up and adhering so

hopefully that's uh that's going to work

anyway haven't haven't been able to put

much up on video lately but I've been

getting a fair bit done on the boat

been out a couple of times a couple

times sailing a couple times moldering

spent a couple nights on it

so that's alright say I don't know I I

just found that the never ending list

the projects was was getting to be a bit

a bit much and just just kind of ran out

of energy on some of it up in the boat

here things are kind of a mess Solar is

working out pretty well but I've only

got about 140 hundred fifty Watts now

I'm gonna probably look at a couple of

flexible panels too so get up somewhere

around 250 watts or so and I think

that'll be that'll be plenty to keep

everything going that I have in the boat

well that's pretty much it for what I've

got for video that's kind of ready to go

and then I've edited down it's been busy

I've been trying to sell off some of the

farm stuff have a cruising course going

on as well so picking up a little bit

more a little bit more Theory gaining a

little more confidence out in the boat

what all else you know just a ton of

stuff going on but anyways got one more

weekend of the cruisin course and then

probably a weekend I'll try to get out

and actually get on the boat for a

weekend maybe shoot some footage of that

hopefully get a little bit from the

course - if I can I'm going to try to

step up the video quality a bit I know

that's a little lacking I got some some

new camera stuff on order so we'll see

how that goes

well a few more projects to do - I gotta

clean up all the wiring have the

autopilot that the auto helm that I want

to hook up to the chart plotter so

there's a little bit to work work out

with that to figure out that NEMA Nemea

interface from 183 to see talked ng or

the Raymarine proprietary protocol so

I've got a convertor picked up I just

have to have to work out hooking that up

a few more little things in the boat to

do just finish off some of the

woodworking and stuff anyway get at it

try to get it the rest of the cleaned up

in the next couple weeks and then it'll

be a more sailing well I do have one

trip - that I've been provisioning for

and everything that's kind of

interesting it's a canoe trip up from

the heart occur near Arctic so that's

been quite a quite a job to get ready

for yeah all the food and everything is

it's got to be prepared a month ahead of

time and shipped up by ground and then

fly up and fly in for this trip so

hopefully I'll get some footage of that

as well it should be interesting I mean

these these canoe trips up there are

like a two-week passage out on the ocean

except here you're going through the

forest well actually there's no poorest

up there it's the Barrens but there's no

stores there's no ports there's no

there's nothing

it's just wilderness so fishing should

be amazing

camping should be amazing what mazing

whitewater should be a really great trip

anyway it's pretty much in the center of

the Northwest Territories and

therefore 2 plus weeks so can't wait

really really stoked for that anyway

that's it for tonight

more to come I'll try to get the videos

coming up a little quicker and like I

said and try to get get the quality a

little better as well

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