Anyone interested in 83 Pace Arrow Tear down and Rebuild?

As you know, if you have followed this thread for a while, I am an inquisitive person. I like to examine some things for myself and make my own decision.

Such was the case, with wood and glue. No, not to join 2 pieces of wood together. I was curious as to how it would work to cover a piece of wood to make it water proof.

So, I took a piece of cedar, and coated part of it with the Titebond 3 that I have just to seed how it would darken the wood.

Titebond doesn't dry fully clear, so I was expecting it to really cover the grain of the wood.

Well, it did darken it a little, but not nearly as much as I thought it would.

The center section here, is where the glue was applied. The rest of the wood has no finish on it at all.

With that properly lined up, I was able to glue and nail the walnut to the face. Yay!

I also cleaned this area out, and started playing with a water tank to see where I want to locate it.

In the background, with the blue arrow, I also started a platform for the shower floor.

It's starting to feel better, more like I am actually getting something done. Wahoo!

Here is what happened. The plywood wasn't quite flush as the space shows here.







When I to put the walnut up here, this is what happened. It would not stay flush top or bottom. Oops.







So, I removed the screws holding the plywood up, and re-aligned the plywood and the 2x3 and screwed it fast again.

Here is what I screwed up the other night.

When I put the plywood frame in place I didn't get it correctly lined up here.

Well, bummer. Some of what I wanted to post tonight, I forgot to take a picture of. Duh!

I'll get 'em up tomorrow.

I also have a piece of black walnut ready to glue into place.

After all that "screwing around", lol, I created this.







It then goes here, and is screwed fast.

What ya gonna do, what ya gonna do, if you work yourself into a corner while trying to screw an assembly together?

Well, here's what I did. Since I did not have enough room to get the drill in here, I used a ratchet with a short square drive that fits the screw head, and just wound it in by hand. Took a little longer, but worked like a champ!

While reading about FRP install, I decided I could do a little extra work in the kitchen.

I cut some 3/4" plywood into 1.5" wide strips. Assembling them with the Kreg system is made easier by using this particular clamp. It does a really nice job of holding things together while putting the first screw in.

Here we go. All cleaned up and waiting on the next step.