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Re: Announce: all aluminum kayak *Pic*
By:mike allen
Date: 7/2/2008, 4:46 am
In Response To: Re: Announce: all aluminum kayak (Bill Hamm)

: The aircraft industry has spent decades and millions of dollars
: coming up with solutions to this problem, but it's not something that's
: easy to duplicate at home, specially not for sheet materials.

that doesn't seem to be the case for either home or sheet material:
the g-flex method i mentioned looks easy to me, especially as there would be long, wide gluing areas. the issue would be holding the panels in place while it sets:
http://www.boatbuilding.net/article.pl?sid=07/11/13/1222229
an etcher is part of the process

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Announce: all aluminum kayak
steve chatman -- 6/29/2008, 9:18 pm
Re: Announce: all aluminum kayak
Charlie -- 6/30/2008, 11:52 am
Re: Announce: all aluminum kayak
Chris Ostlind -- 6/30/2008, 3:51 pm
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Charlie -- 6/30/2008, 5:39 pm
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Chris Ostlind -- 6/30/2008, 6:06 pm
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PatrickC -- 7/2/2008, 9:39 am
Re: Announce: all aluminum kayak
Bill Hamm -- 7/3/2008, 1:22 am
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bromasi -- 6/30/2008, 10:12 pm
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steve chatman -- 7/1/2008, 12:12 am
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Carl Delo -- 7/2/2008, 12:21 am
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mike allen -- 7/1/2008, 6:14 pm
Re: Announce: all aluminum kayak
Bill Hamm -- 7/2/2008, 1:50 am
Re: Announce: all aluminum kayak *Pic*
mike allen -- 7/2/2008, 4:46 am
Re: Announce: all aluminum kayak
Bill Hamm -- 7/3/2008, 1:20 am
I'd love to see a prototype. *NM*
Robert N Pruden -- 7/1/2008, 3:30 pm
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Pawistik -- 6/30/2008, 12:26 am
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Tommy -- 6/30/2008, 10:42 am
Re: Announce: all aluminum kayak *Pic*
Tom Yost -- 6/30/2008, 6:07 pm
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Robert N Pruden -- 7/1/2008, 3:27 pm
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Skiffrace -- 6/30/2008, 7:24 pm
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Dan Caouette (CSFW) -- 6/30/2008, 2:17 pm
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Robert Robb Livingston -- 7/7/2008, 3:22 am
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Jim Bell -- 7/7/2008, 10:15 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 6/30/2008, 2:05 pm
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Glen Smith -- 6/29/2008, 9:30 pm
Re: Announce: all aluminum kayak
Glen Smith -- 6/29/2008, 9:35 pm