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Re: Strip: glassing
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 6/3/2010, 2:38 pm
In Response To: Re: Strip: glassing (Dave)

: I've buile three boats and made mistakes with all of them, adn with
: yourproblem i would recommend using a heat gun and go slowley
: with it using a scraper to pull off the offending tape. I once
: pulled off the entire outer skin of a strip canoe this way. Just
: take you time. The nice thing about resin is it responds to heat
: nicely.

Not tried this, but you might try a household iron (not your wife's), it'll tend to heat the outermost layer of glass faster, the tape, than it'll heat the underlying layer, the cloth on the hull.

Bill H.

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Strip: glassing *PIC*
buck biscuit -- 5/25/2010, 6:59 pm
Re: Strip: glassing
Dave -- 5/31/2010, 10:13 am
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Bill Hamm -- 6/3/2010, 2:38 pm
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Kurt Maurer -- 5/25/2010, 7:08 pm
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Brian Scarborough -- 5/25/2010, 9:36 pm
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Allan -- 5/25/2010, 10:50 pm
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Mike Hanks -- 5/25/2010, 10:28 pm