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Yooper Criminal
Joined: 22 Aug 2004 Posts: 58 City: Marquette
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Posted: Jun 03, 2005 6:21 am Post subject: Side storage compartments |
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I wish I would have taken "before" pictures, but I didn't. My boat is a '99 Supra Santera, and I felt the side compartments needed a bit of an update. They had stretch webbing on them that was sun faded from black to a whitish gray and the stretch was mostly gone. The webbing just kind of hung there.
Also, the actual storage area in there was less than Ideal. It was basically just a canvas pouch stapled on the backside of the panel that just hung into the open space between the hull and the interior wall.
I started by removing the interior upholstered panel, removing the webbing and pouch. I then built a box out of marine plywood that would fit snugly in the space between the hull and the interior wall. This took a bit of customizing and trial and error. A bit more than I expected in fact, since both sides were different widths, which I didn't realize at first. When I got the boxes the right size, I got the idea to make the back of the box out of diamond plate. Great idea, I must admit. So I put the diamond plate on the back, lined the rest with carpet and installed it. Here is the result: |
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Scott M Criminal
Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Posts: 75 City: Acton, ME
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Posted: Jun 03, 2005 4:59 pm Post subject: |
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looks good, i like it alot _________________ Centurion Avalanche |
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89 skier Addict
Joined: 30 Jun 2004 Posts: 729 City: Dallas
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Posted: Jun 07, 2005 7:19 am Post subject: |
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Great looking project. I'd like to create something like that in my boat. _________________ So, I've got that goin' for me...which is nice! |
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Yooper Criminal
Joined: 22 Aug 2004 Posts: 58 City: Marquette
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Posted: Aug 23, 2005 4:39 am Post subject: |
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UPDATE: I put a cold cathode neon tube in the compartment and replaced my lightbulbs in my courtesy lights with LED's from superbrightleds.com. Here is the result...... an unintended, but kind of cool effect is the way it lights through the speaker cones. |
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410fortune Soul Rider
Joined: 24 Jun 2005 Posts: 314 City: Morrison
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Posted: Aug 23, 2005 8:19 am Post subject: |
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Yup looks good.
I have similar stuff going on in my boat |
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PeeDeeRider Criminal
Joined: 31 Jul 2005 Posts: 77
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Posted: Aug 23, 2005 11:29 am Post subject: |
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Looks great, the lights really set it off. |
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super4011 Criminal
Joined: 20 Aug 2005 Posts: 65 City: puerto ordaz venezuela
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Posted: Aug 26, 2005 7:34 am Post subject: |
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cool... im planing to do that on my boat. what diameter are does? _________________ --imposible is nothing-- |
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Yooper Criminal
Joined: 22 Aug 2004 Posts: 58 City: Marquette
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Posted: Aug 26, 2005 8:07 am Post subject: |
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I used the 10mm "bolt beams" from superbrightleds.com for my courtesy lights.
The cold cathodes are from elwirecheap.com |
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super4011 Criminal
Joined: 20 Aug 2005 Posts: 65 City: puerto ordaz venezuela
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Posted: Aug 26, 2005 10:26 am Post subject: |
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do you need to install resistors? _________________ --imposible is nothing-- |
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super4011 Criminal
Joined: 20 Aug 2005 Posts: 65 City: puerto ordaz venezuela
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Posted: Aug 26, 2005 10:28 am Post subject: |
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and are you using neon or leds ? _________________ --imposible is nothing-- |
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Yooper Criminal
Joined: 22 Aug 2004 Posts: 58 City: Marquette
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Posted: Aug 26, 2005 10:45 am Post subject: |
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Yooper wrote: | UPDATE: I put a cold cathode neon tube in the compartment and replaced my lightbulbs in my courtesy lights with LED's from superbrightleds.com. |
^^read^^
The Led bulbs I got came pre wired with resistors. |
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super4011 Criminal
Joined: 20 Aug 2005 Posts: 65 City: puerto ordaz venezuela
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Posted: Aug 26, 2005 11:02 am Post subject: |
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is it a normal neon tube, or is it a especial neon tube. im sorry about all the question, but english is not my lenguage. does the vibration or the hits that the boat does inflict on the neon tube? _________________ --imposible is nothing-- |
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Yooper Criminal
Joined: 22 Aug 2004 Posts: 58 City: Marquette
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Posted: Aug 26, 2005 12:06 pm Post subject: |
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It's called a "COLD CATHODE" neon tube. It seems to be very durable so far. I bought it from this site: www.elwirecheap.com |
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