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Re: Shop: molded seat question
By:Charlie
Date: 5/20/2008, 10:55 pm
In Response To: Shop: molded seat question (PatrickC)

Commercial SOTs are usually rather wide. That is because the center of gravity is elevated do to having the seat molded into the deck. I would do some tests to see if the hull you want to alter can tolerate a raised seating position.
Commercial SOTs have a lot of stuff molded into their decks. It is easy to do with rotomolding. The difficulty you'll have doing the same thing in glass/epoxy depends on how much stuff you want to incorpoate into your deck. Doing glass lay-ups is labor intensive even over a simple shape. I wouldn't call an SOT deck simple.
Good luck.

: How would you go about making a glass copy of a sit on top cockpit?

: is there a forum that specializes in making molds and glass parts?

: I could do stitch and glue i suppose. I even found such a seat for sale
: but after looking at it i'm not sure i will buy it.

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Shop: molded seat question
PatrickC -- 5/19/2008, 11:54 pm
Re: Shop: molded seat question
John Monroe -- 5/22/2008, 4:24 am
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John Monroe -- 5/22/2008, 4:29 am
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Charlie -- 5/20/2008, 10:55 pm
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Acors -- 5/20/2008, 3:54 pm
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PatrickC -- 5/20/2008, 6:04 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 5/20/2008, 1:11 am
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PatrickC -- 5/20/2008, 2:53 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 5/20/2008, 4:02 pm
Mold release
Jay Babina -- 5/21/2008, 7:46 am
Re: Mold release
Bill Hamm -- 5/22/2008, 1:22 am
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Jay Babina -- 5/22/2008, 11:38 am
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Acors -- 5/22/2008, 5:33 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 5/22/2008, 4:21 pm
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Acors -- 5/22/2008, 5:15 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 5/22/2008, 4:18 pm
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Acors -- 5/21/2008, 5:48 pm
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JohnK -- 5/21/2008, 7:00 pm
Re: Mold release
Charlie -- 5/21/2008, 7:44 pm
Re: Shop: molded seat question *LINK*
Glen Smith -- 5/20/2008, 2:59 pm