Recent content by bplayer405

Ridiculous that I unsubsidized from this thread because of spammers. Tired of notifications for viagra in an aluminum welding thread...

2 things left, the cap and a new bracket. After I cut all the pieces I welded it all and riveted everything in place. This thing is super strong now and handles the outboard perfectly.

I picked up some .060" sheet from Nate's Custom Boats and Accessories, located about 10 minutes from me. I picked up the transom and bracket material and top cap from Nate's as well. He has a full line of materials for doing about anything on aluminum boat mods, does custom modifications in his...

Still one major thing to remedy, outboard height. So I cut out the center section (1.5" drop) and added .25" pieces of plate for strength. I cleaned all the welds so it would fit nicely inside its covering pieces I was about to build.

I ended up using material from the middle seats I removed to follow the gap...

I'll let the pics talk for themselves... ... I was left with a gap to fill on the back...

Stripped back apart, I started measuring and cutting the pieces needed to replace the wood. The biggest issue being achieving the proper height for the outboard. I chose to raise the transom fully to the corner plates and drop the center to the height I found worked well tmwith the outboard.

This was the wood setup I used last season. It worked well enough for all the outings we did.

To get the boat usable last year I added a front deck extension, a flat floor for the mod v hull and needed to rebuild the transom with wood. I also added an extension to the back of the transom because my outboards are both longshaft. All that put me to where I was when I stopped the Mig...

I've had my Tig welder close to a year now and have mainly focused on welding aluminum with it. Most of my work on this boat has been in the Mig section. It was definitely time for a move. My latest project was replacing the transom wood with aluminum rectangle tube (1.5" x 3"). I had replaced...

No, its a link to something completely unrelated about dogs...

Finally got around to replacing the transom in my jon boat. It should be complete by this weekend. I'll post the progression, will be pic heavy...Too bad the weather won't be nice enough to want to take it out... Gary showed me I should move this to the Tig section since it's most of my...

Definitely tig...

Hunting break (firearm season), so I decided to pull in a jon boat that needed a new transom. This one got an all aluminum transom. No worries about rot in this one!

Pain in the butt when they ship atv tires folded in on themselves. Had to deal with only one set so far and a strap did them, but they were only 25"...