I'm replacing my 4D's with 8 Golf Cart batteries. Of course, the existing fibreglass boxes are about 1/2" too short in one direction so the GC's won't fit. Has anyone fabricated battery boxes? If so, what material(s) did you use? Cheers, Garrett

> [mailto:owner-trawler-world-list@samurai.com]On Behalf Of Garrett > Lambert > Has anyone fabricated battery boxes? If so, what material(s) did you > use? Nigel Calder has plans for an epoxy/glass reinforced plywood box affair in "Boatowner's Mechanical and Electric Manual". Haven't built one, but his looks very shippy. ___________________________ Doug Barnard rebuilding a 20' Skipjack "Fiesta Bimbo" trawler-crawler wannabe

Garrett Lambert wrote: > I'm replacing my 4D's with 8 Golf Cart batteries. Of course, the existing > fibreglass boxes are about 1/2" too short in one direction so the GC's won't > fit. Has anyone fabricated battery boxes? If so, what material(s) did you > use? Garrett, For my GRP 31 batteries I was in the same fix. Went to the auto parts store and pur. real nice Plastic ones for each battery and then fastened them securely. The strap that comes with them is used ONLY to hold the tops on.Very neat ( and cheap) , tops and all. One heck of a lot less work than building glass ones. CCC

WEST sells big plastic battery boxes. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Culotta" <cculotta@iamerica.net> Cc: "TWL" <trawler-world-list@samurai.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 2:03 PM Subject: Re: TWL: Battery Boxes > > > Garrett Lambert wrote: > > > I'm replacing my 4D's with 8 Golf Cart batteries. Of course, the existing > > fibreglass boxes are about 1/2" too short in one direction so the GC's won't > > fit. Has anyone fabricated battery boxes? If so, what material(s) did you > > use? > > Garrett, > For my GRP 31 batteries I was in the same fix. Went to the auto parts store > and pur. real nice Plastic ones for each battery and then fastened them > securely. > The strap that comes with them is used ONLY to hold the tops on.Very neat ( and > cheap) , tops and all. > One heck of a lot less work than building glass ones. > CCC >