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Material: Okoume bubbles - ????
By:Patsy
Date: 4/26/2003, 10:41 pm

Look out - I'm baaaack!!!! The canoe lives.

So today I finished filling all the wire holes and got transparencies printed at Kinkos of the canoe's name and model for application on the bow and stern respectively.

While looking it over, however, I noticed an odd thing on the wood. There are two spots that sanded more than the wood around them - two small oval shaped spots. I got to wondering why that would be so I ran my hand over them and discovered that they are raised areas. Then I pushed on them and found that they gave under pressure. It's as if the outer layer of okoume has separated from the middle layer of the plywood and made a little bubble.

It may be coincidental, but they are on either side of where one of the inner stations was located. Perhaps I had the station wedged in there too tightly at one point and it created the separation? There aren't such spots where the other four stations were, however.

Regardless of the cause, my question is should I try to do anything about it and if so, what? All I can imagine doing is drilling a small hole in the bubble and injecting some kind of glue. Should I try to do something like that or just ignore it because once it's glassed it won't matter?

Thanks for any thoughts.

Patsy

Messages In This Thread

Material: Okoume bubbles - ????
Patsy -- 4/26/2003, 10:41 pm
Re: Material: Okoume bubbles - ????
Paul G. Jacobson -- 4/28/2003, 10:08 pm
Re: Material: Okoume bubbles - ????
srchr/gerald -- 4/27/2003, 10:59 am
Re: Shouldn't happen
C. Fronzek -- 4/27/2003, 10:07 am
Re: Shouldn't happen
The Big Legume -- 4/27/2003, 10:21 am