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Re: Skin-on-Frame: Materials
By:Thomas Ziegler
Date: 6/3/2008, 4:52 pm
In Response To: Skin-on-Frame: Materials (Chris Noel)

Why do you want to combine HDPE cross sections with wooden gunwales/chines/keel? As I understand it, the main advantage of HDPE is that you can simply snap the aluminium tubes to the HDPE. What is UHMW?

Regards,

Thomas

Messages In This Thread

Skin-on-Frame: Materials
Chris Noel -- 6/3/2008, 2:49 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Materials
Thomas Ziegler -- 6/3/2008, 4:52 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Materials
Chris Noel -- 6/3/2008, 5:19 pm
Go for it.
Dave Gentry -- 6/3/2008, 5:59 pm
Re: Go for it. *LINK*
Dave Gentry -- 6/3/2008, 6:08 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Materials
Bill Hamm -- 6/3/2008, 5:54 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Materials
Chris Noel -- 6/4/2008, 7:27 am