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Turn Out the Lights!
By:mike allen
Date: 9/13/1999, 1:06 pm
In Response To: Re: Slick Method! (Ian Johnston)


> There are some other amazing products out there for emergency repairs;
> photo reactive laminates that work in any temperature, structural
> adhesives that set in 10-60 seconds and aren't affected by moisture, etc.
> They aren't cosmetic repairs but will get you out of a bind fast! And they
> are designed to work with epoxy.

Hey Ian:

Tell us more! What are they called and can ordinary people get them?

And with the photo reactive - you just lay up a strip in red light and then open the blinds! - right? ( And then you hit it with blue and the whole thing falls apart? hehehe )Or you have an 18 foot long black plastic bag tube (no light) with an internal glue applicator - and you lay it all up in sunlight as fast as you can feed it out of the bag!! - sound like machine possibilities here. For curvy areas just add a little steam in the bag!!

(Like a long infeed table into the table saw, then Pete Ford' double router for double coves, then the plastic bag with the applicator, fed out to a rotating mold, and setting up as it fed out! Yipes, let's go into biz!)

I'm intrigued! - mike

Messages In This Thread

fixing a ding
Jay Babina -- 9/10/1999, 8:17 am
Re: fixing a ding
Dale Frolander -- 9/10/1999, 5:27 pm
Slick Method!
mike allen -- 9/10/1999, 8:19 pm
Re: Slick Method!
Dale Frolander -- 9/11/1999, 2:58 am
Re: Slick Method!
Ian Johnston -- 9/11/1999, 4:21 am
Turn Out the Lights!
mike allen -- 9/13/1999, 1:06 pm
Re: Turn Out the Lights!
Ian Johnston -- 9/13/1999, 10:48 pm
Re: Slick Method!
Dean Trexel -- 9/10/1999, 8:47 pm
Re: fixing a ding
Paul G. Jacobson -- 9/10/1999, 3:45 pm
Re: fixing a ding
keith hunter -- 9/10/1999, 11:49 am
Re: fixing a ding
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 9/10/1999, 8:41 am