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Next was pump shoe install. Pump with drive shaft was installed and aligned with shoe floating on bubble wrap. Shoe was then shimmed square to pump and then epoxied in.

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With the pump and drive line sorted it was time to get the top deck ready for bonding. I took this opportunity to fit the foot holds while I'll still had access to the inside of the lid.

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So prior to landing the top deck I decided to seal all the clean, fresh virgin carbon behind the bulkhead with epoxy. If this were a competition boat I wouldn't of bothered, but it should help to shed grease and dirt build up.

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So now the day of reckoning. Bonding on the top deck. Not a lot of pictures because there literally was no time. I live half an hour from Tigercraft so Tony offered me the use of his air powered mixing tube dispenser after I told him I was going to just buy a manual one. He just said " You don't want to do that, I'll lend you mine". Best offer I ever got, from a guy , lol. When I picked up the hull he said I would need 3 tubes, I bought 4. So I picked up the air powered dispenser Friday night for a Saturday bonding session. I recruited my buddy Flash-Fx for help since he had some experience with putting together hulls. Luckily our buddy Wavehog tagged along. I had everything ready , plastic spoons putty knives , rags, cleaning supplies, etc. I had clamps ready even though Tony said I wouldn't need them. The stuff Tony uses to bond hulls is 40 min cure, EXACTLY 40 min. So we hooked up the gun, pulled the trigger, and..........it started dispensing.... slowly. Turned up the air to 90 max listed on the gun, no faster. This is where I'm glad I had Flash there because the first thing he did was hit a timer on his phone. For the next 30 minutes my finger only came off the trigger to switch out tubes. I dispensed , Flash and Wavehog spread. At 32 minutes we placed the deck on, at 40 minutes, the show was over. White knuckles, not for the faint of heart, think twice before you ever consider trying this.

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I don't have any pictures of the actual bonding, but I did get a lot of the squeeze out. Tony , said 3, I bought 4, we got 3 3/4 on. I went heavy for FULL bond.

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The interior perimeter bond line was faired with epoxy for carbon reinforcement, and the weight.

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For the foot bucket install I didn't want to use screws or rivets , so I made an exo skeleton I could use expander clamps against to press them in place.

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Here's the hood openings after bonding, wanted a better connection here than just the liner butting up to the lid.

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