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Tech Talk => Projects => Topic started by: Just4theHALLET on April 01, 2020, 01:02:33 AM

Title: Removed foam 77 Hallett 19 bubble deck
Post by: Just4theHALLET on April 01, 2020, 01:02:33 AM: This is a Hallett project I recently started. My first jet boat. Building not buying. Not that I don’t buy many other things.
I used a trowel shovel and a shop-vac oh and a 8 year old. She filled the trash bags. Hope this stuff wasn’t toxic. Took me 3 straight hours non stop and filled 5 trash bags and the city trash can. Had 7 inflatable bags in there too. Only a couple still had air. 1970s air. And something else in there. Looked like a paint can but nothing really left. And a paint stir stick. There was blue on what may have been a lid. I really dont know.
Anyone thinking of doing this it’s a dirty job but just get in and do it. It’s mindless. Trowel worked great. A bit slow but less of a mess compared to a pressure washer.
Title: Re: Removed foam 77 Hallett 19 bubble deck
Post by: FordLover on April 01, 2020, 02:42:43 PM: Nice work on a dirty ass no fun job!

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Title: Re: Removed foam 77 Hallett 19 bubble deck
Post by: justinmw124 on April 01, 2020, 07:50:59 PM: I have a 74 hallett thinking of doing this just wondering what are the positives too doing this

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Title: Re: Removed foam 77 Hallett 19 bubble deck
Post by: eliminator18 on April 01, 2020, 08:19:25 PM: I need to do this as well, and I’m not looking forward to doing it either!

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Title: Re: Removed foam 77 Hallett 19 bubble deck
Post by: eliminatorbuild on April 02, 2020, 05:34:30 AM: I didn’t take the foam out of mine when I started the rebuild. Should I have?

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Title: Re: Removed foam 77 Hallett 19 bubble deck
Post by: sevans01 on April 02, 2020, 07:09:59 AM: Quote from: eliminatorbuild on April 02, 2020, 05:34:30 AM
I didn’t take the foam out of mine when I started the rebuild. Should I have?

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Its not necessary
Title: Re: Removed foam 77 Hallett 19 bubble deck
Post by: eliminatorbuild on April 02, 2020, 09:01:51 AM: Quote from: sevans01 on April 02, 2020, 07:09:59 AM
Its not necessary
Is there any benefits to taking it out?

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Title: Removed foam 77 Hallett 19 bubble deck
Post by: TrollerDave on April 02, 2020, 11:41:29 AM: A couple of reasons most have taken the foam out is
1. To do a bow repair. This is why I took mine out.
2. Sometimes that foam I gets water logged and is just heavy and rotted. It cleans it up and removes bow weight if it had been water logged. The water may have evaporated, but it might have minerals and scale adding weight.

Some manufacturers used the foam. Some used long, plastic bags filled with little styrofoam balls. Either way, it’s usually a messy clean up.

Some just wanted storage up there.

It’s not necessary to remove. It just depends on the foam’s condition.

I was lucky. My foam seemed like it was made in a mold and placed up there and “glued” in a few places. I had to break it up into about 4 sections. It took me about 1 hour to get it out.

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Title: Re: Removed foam 77 Hallett 19 bubble deck
Post by: OutofTouch on April 02, 2020, 05:43:57 PM: I had help removing my foam. I had bags of ghost farts packed in tubes glassed to the gunnels behind the bulkhead, 2 plus shop vacs worth. Didn't even know they were there, 30 years go figure. I always wondered why I couldn't see any foam up under the bow. I found the ghost farts one spring after my assistants helped out, Raccoons. They decided the ghost farts would look better all over the inside of the hull. My assistants also thought that my interior needed to be upgraded so they worked on that also.

Bob