Gazza, if you look hard enough on u-tube, you'll find guys repairing transoms with cardboard !!!.
Use the scarf joint bud...
Col
Col yeah thats how i made my templates but a bitch to cut with scissors and not very accurite i used the cardboard from the trailer mover box, any idea where to buy a large sheet of thin cardboard?
Its the scarfs im worried about cutting, cut one accidently in reverse and i f.... a whole sheet of kaycel
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Why not go down to a cardboard recycling drop off point and find a tv box there. Gotta be big enough.
You could also go to Bunnings and get some carpet scissors. Not expensive but would cut cardboard well
Just not thinking today... the kaycel came with two cardboard sheets as protection faces i'll use those
Mostly awake at night i just need to find a couple daylight hours to grind in and cut the kaycel than i'll be working at night
Wish i lived on a farm i would be out there at 3am with the circular saw going flat out
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So cut the scarfs first - that way there is no back to front - you can just turn the sheet over if you get it arse about and provided the angles are right it will match. Then once you have it all laid out as one, put your template over it. Then add a decent knee brace internally where the joins are.Originally Posted by gazza2006au
Easier to use than card board is the cheap5mm Masonite. Cut it into lengths of 50mm wide and use a hot glue gun to glue them together. Run them around the outside of your transom and that is your template.
Scott i have to cut out the pieces individually to fit 1 transom per 1200x1200mm sheet a bit tricky so the cuts wont be back to back as i have to rotate the templates to best fit the sheet
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So cut your templates an extra width where the scarf joint will be so you wont be short.
Its a bit daunting.. i might video the whole transom repair *gulp* for everyone to see
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Measure twice - cut once
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When I have to do 45 degree "mitres" or scarfs in this case, I just lay the two pieces as they will be, the draw a line across both to indicate the direction of the cut, it's easy to get confused with angle cuts, especially if material is limited, and pieces can't be just turned over, anyone who has done work with quad (quarter round) and mitres will know how tricky it is.....
Yeah what i am thinkining i may have problems with the 45 degree cut is one side will need to be cut away from me and the other side cut towards me than it gets tricky as i will have other angle cuts that may not be to or from me just to be able to fit the shape on tge sheet
I hope i dont ..... it up
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It's easy enough, just mark everything up or inside etc that way there's no guessing which way things go, mind you, I fitted a door at my sons place the other day, giving him "lessons" as we went, ended up putting the door on reversed, so the lock side was where the hinges were, the handle/lock went through a few mm of timber and cardboard, the hole was easy to drill though.......
I had to buy a new screen door Noel i bought a right hand door i needed a left hand door lol it was easy to remove the lock and turn the door upside down but the cutout on the door jamb was off lol
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About to go get to work finish sanding the transom
Got the all clear from thr heart specialist i was worrying over shit i had no idea about after i seen the ultrasound
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