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About a year ago, if I bremember me right, I made a skeg (rudder/keel) for my wife's kayak and subsequently, another for a friend of hers. Both kayaks were identical, so required the same set up.
She recently came back from kayaking with an extra Kayak on the trailer.
"Who's Kayak is that?" I pondered out loud.
"Why that's Tina's Kayak, you're going to work on." Says she.
"Doin' what?" Says I.
"Adding a skeg like you did on mine."
"But it's different than yours" Says I in rebuttal
"You'll figure it out." Says she with finality.
With that overblown vote of confidence, I had another project, unwanted kinda project. There in might lie the problem.
Turned downed the end and threaded it, faced it, cut the relief and knurled. All going well so far. I set it up to drill the two retaining pin holes...forgot to add the .100 to my measurement to allow for the edge finder dimension. "Ack!" You will notice if you look somewhat closer the holes are offset from the longitudinal center. Only had one other piece of aluminum the same size and wasn't going to trash this one yet. So I continued setting up to mill the slot...yep got in a hurry and failed to tighten the rear hold down clamp enough. Scared me silly when it jump out of square and notched the end, and then some, of the slot. DANG! But I was still not going to trash this one and waste the aluminum. So 'Tina' gets what she gets.
The moral might be don't let your mind wander off what you're doing. Or...don't let the wife get you to do what you may not want to do.
She recently came back from kayaking with an extra Kayak on the trailer.
"Who's Kayak is that?" I pondered out loud.
"Why that's Tina's Kayak, you're going to work on." Says she.
"Doin' what?" Says I.
"Adding a skeg like you did on mine."
"But it's different than yours" Says I in rebuttal
"You'll figure it out." Says she with finality.
With that overblown vote of confidence, I had another project, unwanted kinda project. There in might lie the problem.
Turned downed the end and threaded it, faced it, cut the relief and knurled. All going well so far. I set it up to drill the two retaining pin holes...forgot to add the .100 to my measurement to allow for the edge finder dimension. "Ack!" You will notice if you look somewhat closer the holes are offset from the longitudinal center. Only had one other piece of aluminum the same size and wasn't going to trash this one yet. So I continued setting up to mill the slot...yep got in a hurry and failed to tighten the rear hold down clamp enough. Scared me silly when it jump out of square and notched the end, and then some, of the slot. DANG! But I was still not going to trash this one and waste the aluminum. So 'Tina' gets what she gets.
The moral might be don't let your mind wander off what you're doing. Or...don't let the wife get you to do what you may not want to do.