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Re: Strip: Joining halves/taping the seam
By:Ken Sutherland
Date: 6/8/2003, 7:46 pm
In Response To: Strip: Joining halves/taping the seam (James Nixon)

Hi James,

You could use the cloth you are using for the rest of the boat and cut it into strips but as mentioned. But, for the inside seam it doesn't make much sense to wrestle with home cut tape. You can't see the inside seam so it doesn't have to be really pretty. Do as neat of a job as you can, try to minimize drips, and when you are finished and it is all cured, just run your sander over it to take off any sharp edges that may cut you or your gear. I would suggest using the hand cut tape on the outside seam, due to the fact that it is easier to fair and wets out clearer and more easily.

Enjoy the building!!

Ken

: Hello everyone,
: In Nick's book he says "now cut some glass cloth tape for the interior
: seam"...I'm assuming he means just use the glass cloth you've been
: using for the rest of the boat and saturate it in resin. Or is there some
: separate kind of glass cloth "tape"?
: James

Messages In This Thread

Strip: Joining halves/taping the seam
James Nixon -- 6/8/2003, 3:12 pm
Re: Strip: Joining halves/taping the seam
Ken Sutherland -- 6/8/2003, 7:46 pm
Re: Strip: Joining halves/taping the seam
rnb4tla -- 6/8/2003, 8:49 pm
Re: Strip: Joining halves/taping the seam
Jay Thomas -- 6/8/2003, 3:47 pm
Re: Strip: Joining halves/taping the seam
Jay Thomas -- 6/8/2003, 7:08 pm
Re: Strip: Joining halves/taping the seam
Rehd -- 6/8/2003, 3:42 pm