Re: [bolger] Digest Number 2573 -- CB lead

Drill big holes (in the rectangular area) and fill them with microballoons?

How much do you want the CB to weigh? How much does it weigh now?

Roger
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From: <catboat15@...>

> In a message dated 8/3/2005 5:08:04 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
>bolger@yahoogroups.comwrites:
>
> Manhandling a 500 pound slug of lead up and over the
>> sides and down into the bilge and down into the hull
>> seems tricky to me.
>
>
>
> Please don't mention lead to me today. I am doing the Bolger
> Cartopper design 519. The drawing show the CB as 1/2 inch
> thick and a 4 inch square cutout for a weight. with a note
> "9.2 lbs" (double checked, but no calcs looked at.)
> So cut out the hole and clamped a scrap piece of ply on the
> bottom, leveled it up and melted up about 10 lbs of lead that
> I had on hand from old fish sinkers. (Used the kitchen stove,
> SWMBO was off visiting family.) Started pouring and found
> that when the drawing was traced a number got put in wrong
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> But, now trying to figure out how to get the excess lead out without
> burning
> up the CB wood.