Lee,

Are you still blowing your neighbors planters apart with M-80's? Do all the neighborhood cats run when they see you? Do your paddling partners stay well clear at all times? And I'm not talking about a hygiene problem.

Well, seriously now. To answer your question, the samples were placed on a concrete floor. I was merely testing resistance to surface dings, scratches, and the like. Depth of fill might play a role, but resin by itself is not very strong, right? Besides, I squeegeed on the fill, so there is not much standing above the fibers.

When you say 4 oz. s-glass, are you refering to the 3.75 oz plain weave that is commonly availabe?

Ted

: Ted,,after that drop test you lost interest!!! my god no three point tests,
: .22 target shooting or tumbling in a rock polishing machine??? One of the
: funnest things is totally mangling a piece and feeling it come apart.
: whew,,better go back to therapy.

: ok,,I've calmed down,,just out of curiosity were your panels sitting on a
: flat surface with no bending forces? I wonder if the larger fill coat in
: the 6oz s-glass sample had any correlation to its impact resistance?

: ok,,I just finished adding another layer of 4oz s-glass on the bottom of a
: friends Coho,,,yes after 4 years of heavy use and getting strapped down on
: racks it's shown some wear and a few fractures to the glass where there's
: only one layer of 4oz s-glass on either side,,with a doubled layer on the
: center bottom panel....now I think I'm going to get that boat up to 50lbs.
: with all the stuff that's going on it. All this so I can watch my friends
: in their glass boats that are fully loaded carefully exit amongst the
: rocks and seaweed while I slide/grind up. Four layers of 4oz s-glass on
: the bottom center panel HAHAHAHA,,,,HAHAAHAA,,haahaha,,damn, fell in the
: water again.