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Re: fiberglass chopper gun
By:Robert
Date: 2/3/2000, 8:02 pm
In Response To: Re: fiberglass chopper gun (Steve Groufsky)

> A chopper gun is used mainly to lay up a hull in a female mold what type
> of ship do you intend to build? Must hulls the size you are talking about
> are built with a core material or the hull is built with a timber frame
> covered in marine ply and glassed inside and out. A glass hull of 65feet
> will need some sort of reinforcement think of the weight involved.

What i had planed was a outter hull then take off mold and blow in fiberglas ribs and then a inter hull and put liquid sirofoam in between. i do understand that this boat will be very heavy estmaite around 16 tons would be avrage

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fiberglass chopper gun
Robert -- 2/2/2000, 9:02 pm
Re: fiberglass chopper gun
Steve Groufsky -- 2/3/2000, 12:53 am
Re: fiberglass chopper gun
Robert -- 2/3/2000, 8:56 am
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Steve Groufsky -- 2/3/2000, 4:25 pm
Re: fiberglass chopper gun
Robert -- 2/3/2000, 8:02 pm
Re: fiberglass chopper gun
Steve Groufsky -- 2/3/2000, 8:48 pm
Re: fiberglass chopper gun
Robert -- 2/3/2000, 9:03 pm
Re: fiberglass chopper gun
Steve Groufsky -- 2/3/2000, 9:25 pm
Re: fiberglass chopper gun
Robert -- 2/4/2000, 9:26 am
Re: fiberglass chopper gun
Steve Groufsky -- 2/5/2000, 5:17 am
Re: research other building methods
lee -- 2/4/2000, 10:08 pm
Re: fiberglass chopper gun
Bart Castleberry -- 2/4/2000, 9:24 pm
Re: fiberglass chopper gun
Nolan -- 2/3/2000, 2:43 pm
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Paul G. Jacobson -- 2/3/2000, 1:13 pm
Re: fiberglass chopper gun
Robert -- 2/3/2000, 7:52 pm
Re: fiberglass chopper gun
lee -- 2/2/2000, 10:47 pm
Re: fiberglass chopper gun
Robert -- 2/3/2000, 9:00 am
Re: fiberglass chopper gun
Shawn Baker -- 2/3/2000, 10:34 am