To All,

Here’s a few pix of the finished product Swim Platform

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This ones for Sorry Dog : I didn’t want to let you down by not celebrating this feat even had one
for U

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Now for the bad side of the F/B

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AnyWho hope all goes as well with this as it did with the S/P if the F/B turns out half as good as
the S/P I’ll be HAPPY. The pix don’t do the S/P justice. If interested & want to see more pix
click slide show upper right corner.

To anyone thinking of attempting enlarging their S/P a few things I can recommend cut the old
one off try to sell it to another BIG M owner that needs one & build it from scratch take My word
on this one it will be a lot CHEAPER & a lot less work. The clean up of the Imron paint alone so
the welder could weld it plus the fact it must all come off to be powder coated was very costly. I
could of bought a whole sheet of AL. & still had enough to pay for all the BEER & cigars it took
to get through this Labor of Love. Amen !!!! It’s done


Norm,

BIG s Live On

Doc, The pictures look great you do good work. Looks like you enjoyed a well diserved celebration seeing the bar shot. Keep up the good work.

Capt Cort

Dennis,

D/D wrote: How did you like drilling those holes below the water line?

Reply the first two holes & they where above the water took a hours worth of checking &
rechecking (an not 1 brewski) yet

On the checking so that they didn’t line up with the transom ribs had 3 do that problem solved
used a hole saw to accommodate a deep well 9/16ths socket.

My Cardiologist will be proud of me when I tell him of all the exercise I’ve done of going up &
down that ladder a zillion times, but lets not elaborate on the suds

Never gave the it a thought about using the S/P as a tail gate bar  that was the a test on the
durability of the powder coating. it passed Oh them wine glass where for the neighbor’s wife she was more
nerviest than I was cause she was worried where they’d party this summer if I didn’t launch.
She’s still unaware that shes going to have to come to the west side of the state to suck another
boottle of vino on the “OTM”

On the blasting of the F/B that’s another story the P/C guys equipment couldn’t budge the
remainder of the bond-o had me take it to Mich sandblast, that guy is totally out of his mind he
quoted $1,700 to $2,500 to blast it. I told him so in so many word’s. His reply was he lost $$ on
the blasting of the S/P & he ain’t doing imron no more cause it’s to time consuming. So I brought
it home I’ve in about 5 hours I have 85% of it cleaned up will post later the easy way of getting
the crap off don’t want to put the cart before the A$$ Well I’m off to the garage to finish it off &
hopefully get a coat of Lab Metal on it today. According too the instructions one can thin it down
to a consistency of paint an roll on the final coat. Gotta go see U’all later.

Norm,

BIGs Live On

Dennis,

Pretty near  I’ve got all the bond-o off the outer part scuff up the inner bulkheads tomorrow & it
should be ready fir the Lab Metal hope that $hit works at the price not to mention the work I did
getting the bond-o off about 6 hr work saved me 17/ 25 hundred not bad pay for 6 hours work or so. Jeff, will be proud of me on the SAVING on this one Ta Da

Norm,

Bigs Live On

That stuff smells great huh?
After semi clean did you sand, use Jasco, or both?

Yep, I'd say the fumes got to ya.