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What's up everybody? It's technicians Tuesday and we've got some more cutting to do on the
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transom of our Ocean Master Project boat. We're going to go around the edge here and clean out all
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the old wood. Then we'll pull this back deck piece out and cut out these two bulkheads here
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Make sure you're subscribed with that bell on and let's get right back to work
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Getting into this lip here can be pretty difficult. I'm looking for any new ideas anybody has
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if you want to let us know in the comment section. But what I've found to work the best so far is to take this right here
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probably the most dangerous tool I own, a four and a half inch grinder with this C7 bad blade
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that could eat through your hand like butter. So it's crucial to be extremely careful when using any kind of tool like this
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What we're going to do is basically go up and down this edge here
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and sink the grinder into the edge to cut out a bunch of the wood and glass that is left in here
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which is usually still solid wood around the outside edges and the tops of the transom
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making it pretty difficult to get it out. With a bunch of cuts in the wood, we'll then take out of pry bar and my old S-wing hammer
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that no one seems to like and go around the edge, chunking out the pieces a little bit at a time
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As you can see, this is a pretty tedious task here that took about two hours to get all the way around the transom
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We are trying to get all of the wood off of the glass so that when we come around here later
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and prepare the transom for the glass work, we can have good, clean glass to lay our new fiberglass to
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in order to create a good, solid bond, giving the transom the strength we need it to have
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After we get all of the edges done, we just have to finish out with the upper sections
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which usually aren't as bad as the sides, since we can come straight in from the top of the wood
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and pry it out as a bigger chunk Before getting to that though we just need to please hit that like button and we have to cut off this piece here that goes around the drop down section of the transom It not that bad we just go around it with the
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grinder and the bad blade cutting it along the inside of the inner piece of fiberglass
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Once we get that piece to drop and then get the little side piece off, we can do a couple of passes on the upper section of wood and then take our pry bar and knock out the sections until we get as much of the wood out as possible
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We won't worry about the little pieces of wood though. We'll be coming back around and using the grinder to get all the little pieces out whenever we do the prep work
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Right now, we just want to get out the majority of the wood the best that we can and off of the existing glass that we are going to be laying the transom tube
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But once we've got the edges all cleaned out, we can move to the inside of the boat where we have this little section of decking left
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This wasn't hard to get out though. They didn't do a very good job on the prep work before laying the glass because it pried right off and I was able to basically pull it out in just a couple of chunks
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They did their best work here on this part where this wood piece goes around where the rigging is coming out of the bilge
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For whatever reason, they actually put some effort into this little box here because it didn't want to come out
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Once it did though we pushed the old brass drain fittings out and then put a standalone builds pump into the fuel tank area and the old live well area to get rid of all the rainwater
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that had collected in there. This way we could start in on these bulkheads and clean up around this deck area
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After looking at this back chunk here, they just laid the glass right on top of the existing
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floor, which is sad because we'll have to figure out a way to make this transatlantic
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into the non-skid when we put the new deck down. And no matter how we do it, it's not going to look perfect
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but we're not going to sand down the entire floor and re-nonskid it
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Let's try again. Oh, there he did, he got him! I got him
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I got it. Because I would like to get back to fishing and not more sanding. But then we cleaned out the bill jerry here and pulled out a bunch of the old debris
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and wood that had piled up in here and pulled out all these old vacuum-style bilge hoses
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and ripped out the old bilge pump and float switch. Pulled out the live well hose and pump
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then cleaned up the top of this bulkhead here to see what would be the best way to cut it out
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which brings us to another tool that makes it a lot easier to get through these bulkheads and get them out
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I know we've been talking about a lot of tools and blades today, but don't worry though
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this channel isn't going to turn into a tool review channel trying to sell you tools
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We're all about the content and showing you the process of the work and the actual work itself
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So hit that like button if you haven't yet and you will help us out so that YouTube will show our videos to more people
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and check out the fine multi-master tool which is just an oscillating saw
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But it's amazing for doing something like this and works like a dream
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We'll take the saw and cut out along the edge of the bulkhead and then inside the live well
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cutting down the glass portion of this pocket Which is full of this nasty black water that's probably been there since
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1995 You can see why this thing sweet though You can really get in and cut something that normally we wouldn be able to get to with a normal saw and the saws all would be just as awkward
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With the bottom and side cut, we ran up the inside edge and then the top
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so we could push this piece out and throw it away. Then just repeated the entire process on the other side
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I'm sure a lot of you know this, but for those that don't, these side sections are here to create a round live well
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Live wells around to create a good water flow and to keep the bait swimming around in a circle in order to keep the fish alive longer
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But once we get these sections out, we worked our way around the bottom of the bulkhead until we were able to knock it out
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Switched out our blade to a new one and got started in on the back bulkhead
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This one went a lot quicker with the new blade and as you can see here, these round sections were just as full of water as the front two were
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It was pretty nasty inside of these sections
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I don't know if that slime could get any blacker or not. I'm sure it's infested with Mercer or some other disease, which is why a mask is a must
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We worked our way down the side of the bulkhead and then cut across the bottom until we could pull the piece in and then push it back
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cut the last little piece holding it on, and then throw it out of the boat. Leaving us with a nice, open, and clean build area
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