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Re: Skin-on-Frame: temp skin choice
By:Carl Delo
Date: 7/1/2008, 11:11 pm
In Response To: Re: Skin-on-Frame: temp skin choice (Bill Hamm)

: I glue all the joints with thickened epoxy. Then afterwards form filets with
: the same material. Will be using gussets and very light trussing. Just did
: a ballpark weight study of the plans and looks like I might (assuming I'm
: careful) get the weight at around 38 lbs. This is with a 4 oz. heat shrunk
: dacron skin.

: Bill H.

Hi Bill - I was going to use 8.9 oz nylon and goop from the skinboat school to cover mine. But I'm thinking a lighter skin makes a lot of sense for a hull that is narrow and has no openings - is the 4 oz dacron the stuff from Geodesic/Airolite boats? Do you think it would work with Zar oil-based exterior polyurethane?

This week I'm epoxying all the ply pieces and am going to assemble the whole thing with screws (no glue) and a temp skin to see if all this nonsense has a chance of working. I'm going to post a link to some photos of my build so far on the main index.

Carl

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Skin-on-Frame: temp skin choice
Carl Delo -- 6/27/2008, 11:32 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: temp skin choice
HenkA -- 6/30/2008, 1:12 am
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Carl Delo -- 6/30/2008, 10:31 am
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Mike Savage -- 6/30/2008, 6:04 am
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Bill Hamm -- 6/30/2008, 1:48 am
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Carl Delo -- 6/30/2008, 12:30 am
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Sean -- 6/29/2008, 9:48 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: temp skin choice *LINK*
David Reekie -- 6/29/2008, 6:07 am
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Bill Hamm -- 6/29/2008, 1:17 am
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Bill Hamm -- 6/29/2008, 1:02 am
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Carl Delo -- 6/30/2008, 12:25 am
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Bill Hamm -- 6/30/2008, 1:46 am
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Carl Delo -- 6/30/2008, 9:48 am
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Bill Hamm -- 6/30/2008, 6:41 pm
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Carl Delo -- 7/1/2008, 11:11 pm
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Aaron H -- 7/2/2008, 3:43 pm
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Aaron H -- 7/2/2008, 3:49 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 7/2/2008, 4:06 pm
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Aaron H -- 7/2/2008, 5:41 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 7/3/2008, 9:02 am
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Bill Hamm -- 7/3/2008, 1:26 am
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Bill Hamm -- 7/2/2008, 1:56 am
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Carl Delo -- 7/2/2008, 9:42 am
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Bill Hamm -- 7/3/2008, 1:24 am
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Michael McCluskey -- 6/28/2008, 4:22 pm
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Mike Bielski -- 6/28/2008, 2:49 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: temp skin choice *Pic*
Tom Yost -- 6/28/2008, 11:02 am
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Carl Delo -- 6/30/2008, 12:19 am
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Pete Notman -- 6/28/2008, 4:24 am
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