45" Mono Revival

strictlybusiness1 replied the topic: 45" Mono Revival

"VERY IMPRESSIVE" work that shows what can be done by a "BUILDER" instead of purchasing stuff & screwing it together. I take my hat off to your efforts thus far! Be sure to keep us posted on your progress. Thank you!

Jim Allen
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AARONHL replied the topic: 45" Mono Revival

Very nice to see the top completed- did you paint the red/orange with a compressor or can? I feel I am lacking in my wood and fiberglassing because I don't have a compressor
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dwr9 replied the topic: 45" Mono Revival

The boat looks great! Doug
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Rysquedases replied the topic: 45" Mono Revival

Not bad. You would have paid over 1200.00 for a deck and hull mold plus a boat. Well done but you have played with composites before. LOL. Keep it going your on a roll!
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Motorboater replied the topic: 45" Mono Revival

Thanks guy's. I'm a few steps ahead of the thread and am digging up pics as I go.
With the deck mould & part done, I started giving some thoughts to fitting out everything else. After searching forums
for answers, it looked like everyone one was using 1/4 to 1/2" ply for their engine rails. I found some 9mm marine ply
at Bunnings, so went with that.
With the rails in it was time to start thinking about CG's, and radio boxes etc...
29% seemed to be a good starting point for a stock Zen motor.
I stuffed everything into the hull that'd finally be in there to get the hulls final weight, and found that the T-bar I wanted to run wouldn't allow the motor back far enough back to achieve my 29%. I ended up soldering some brass tube together as a T-bar instead. The collet has more clearance than is in the pic. It worked well.
I didn't join the deck to the hull until very last, so I'd have more room to work on things. It was going to get joined with urethane anyway, not glass.


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Motorboater replied the topic: 45" Mono Revival

Once the motor was fixed down and the shaft tube all sorted, I started on the radio box. I went with an enforcer box, grommets and antenna tube, so only needed to make another tray of my own to place things where I wanted them. I'm not running an on/off switch, so just unplug when it's out of the water.

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gabe3366 replied the topic: 45" Mono Revival

Great looking boat, it looks professionally made. I also like that t-bar you made, do you have anymore pictures of it? What type of fittings did you use? Would be perfect for my scratch build.
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Motorboater replied the topic: 45" Mono Revival

I did use a compressor to paint with yes. The only thing I used it for with the glass, was when spraying release agent. It's only a cheapo 3/4hp hobby compressor, but I get by with it.
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Motorboater replied the topic: 45" Mono Revival


Just K&S brass tubing. I've lost an SD card somewhere, I'm sure I had a heap more pics somewhere.
I remember when I got the enforcer T-bar, my shaft tube wasn't a tight fit in the bar. So I would've had to sleeve it to make it work, that's how I ended up with some 3/8 (I think) tubing left over to make the one you see out of. The part in the circle, is just a brass washer soldered on with a nutsert in it (you could solder a brass nut in there or whatever else I guess). The part in the triangle is a sleeve so that if I damage the shaft I can slide it out of the bar if need be. I just held the tubing on my dremel grinding stone to get a nice curve to solder to the sleeve. Regular 60/40 solder and flux was used with a pencil torch after a good scuff and acetone wipe.
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Motorboater replied the topic: 45" Mono Revival

I put in the pool noodles before the deck went on aswell. Don't worry about the water line plumbing in the muffler flange in this shot. I changed it around once I learned the whole thermosyphon thing after wondering why the motor cooling inlet was lower than the outlet :P .
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