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Re: Strip: Heating work area for fiberglassing
By:Darel
Date: 11/16/2010, 8:29 pm
In Response To: Re: Strip: Heating work area for fiberglassing (Kurt Maurer)

I was just going to mount 4 or 5 100-watt lightbulbs to my strongback wired to a ch eap line-voltage thermostat. Drape the kayak with wax paper then blankets when youre not working on it. That way youre not paying to heat an uninsulated drafty garage. Thoughts?

: Do be careful about using kerosene heaters, or other types that may
: put out oily emissions. Epoxy does not like oily anything.

: I feel like an idiot writing this because I live on the Texas gulf
: coast and wouldn't know a kerosene heater if it crept up and bit
: me on the ankle, but it seems like I heard about problems
: arising from one or two, on this board in the past. In any case,
: you can never warn folks about airborne oily stuff and boat
: building.....

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Strip: Heating work area for fiberglassing
Stephen Troy -- 11/16/2010, 11:12 am
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Paul G.Jacobson -- 11/28/2010, 3:32 am
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Mark Rakestraw -- 11/16/2010, 1:19 pm
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Stephen Troy -- 11/17/2010, 1:47 am
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Bill Hamm -- 11/17/2010, 7:48 am
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Stephen Troy -- 11/17/2010, 1:03 pm
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Mark -- 11/18/2010, 12:01 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 11/18/2010, 1:26 am
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Al Edie -- 11/18/2010, 12:21 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 11/19/2010, 12:49 am
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PatrickC -- 11/21/2010, 5:59 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 11/22/2010, 12:40 am
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Bill Hamm -- 11/22/2010, 12:42 am
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Bill Hamm -- 11/18/2010, 1:36 pm
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Pat MacDonald -- 11/17/2010, 8:58 am
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Dan Caouette (CSFW) -- 11/17/2010, 9:17 am
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Ancient Kayaker -- 11/20/2010, 11:57 am
Re: Strip: Heating work area for fiberglassing *PIC*
Farback -- 11/20/2010, 12:45 pm
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Les Cheeseman -- 11/17/2010, 10:28 am
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Mike Savage -- 11/17/2010, 5:05 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 11/17/2010, 9:05 am
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Kurt Maurer -- 11/16/2010, 6:17 pm
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Darel -- 11/16/2010, 8:29 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 11/16/2010, 8:41 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 11/16/2010, 12:08 pm
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Stephen Troy -- 11/16/2010, 12:20 pm