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Re: Skin-on-Frame: New Skin coating
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 3/12/2011, 10:12 am
In Response To: Re: Skin-on-Frame: New Skin coating (Tim Abbott)

: The tear strenght and hardness numbers would scare me off from that
: one. Sounds more like a caulking, soft.
: I tried using a steak knife on my sample last night - pushing hard
: in a slicing motion with the sharp point just produced a little
: scratch, so I'd say the hardness factor is pretty good. Don't
: see that rated in thier specs though.

Using a product for a use it's not designed for, you'll not find specs that help very often :)

It's experimental, nothing necessarily wrong with that, just make sure you're in a boat that's easy to escape from if something bad happens.

Bill H.

Messages In This Thread

Skin-on-Frame: New Skin coating *PIC*
Dave Gentry -- 10/31/2010, 11:33 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: New Skin coating
Tim Abbott -- 3/11/2011, 5:37 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: New Skin coating
TheLuckyOne -- 3/12/2011, 8:54 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: New Skin coating
Bill Hamm -- 3/13/2011, 12:36 am
workbench top of MDF?
Paul G. Jacobson -- 3/13/2011, 1:03 am
Re: workbench top of MDF?
Bill Hamm -- 3/14/2011, 12:15 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: New Skin coating
Dave Gentry -- 3/12/2011, 10:45 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: New Skin coating
TheLuckyOne -- 3/13/2011, 10:30 am
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Paul G. Jacobson -- 3/13/2011, 1:21 am
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Tim Abbott -- 3/13/2011, 11:00 am
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Dave Gentry -- 3/11/2011, 7:07 pm
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Mike Bielski -- 3/11/2011, 10:46 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 3/12/2011, 8:24 am
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Mike Bielski -- 3/12/2011, 9:10 am
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Bill Hamm -- 3/12/2011, 9:32 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: New Skin coating
Tim Abbott -- 3/12/2011, 9:55 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: New Skin coating
Bill Hamm -- 3/12/2011, 10:12 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: New Skin coating *PIC*
Tim Abbott -- 3/12/2011, 8:46 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: New Skin coating
Bill Hamm -- 3/12/2011, 9:33 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: New Skin coating
Tim Abbott -- 3/11/2011, 10:00 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: New Skin coating
Kudzu -- 3/12/2011, 7:39 am
Wetted-out Skin coating
Paul G. Jacobson -- 3/12/2011, 11:11 am
Re: Wetted-out Skin coating
Kudzu -- 3/12/2011, 11:20 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: New Skin coating
Dave Gentry -- 3/11/2011, 10:48 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: New Skin coating
Tim Abbott -- 3/11/2011, 11:10 pm
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John VanBuren -- 11/7/2010, 7:36 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: New Skin coating
Bill Hamm -- 11/7/2010, 1:37 am
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Noel Bennett -- 11/3/2010, 3:25 pm
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Kudzu -- 11/3/2010, 3:42 pm
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Noel Bennett -- 11/3/2010, 4:13 pm
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Prasad Bhatla -- 11/6/2010, 6:39 pm
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Noel Bennett -- 11/7/2010, 1:11 pm
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Dave Gentry -- 11/2/2010, 3:11 pm
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Noel Bennett -- 11/2/2010, 4:59 pm
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Dave Gentry -- 11/2/2010, 7:04 pm
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Will Clarke -- 11/3/2010, 10:09 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: New Skin coating
Noel Bennett -- 11/2/2010, 7:53 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: New Skin coating
John lasky -- 11/2/2010, 11:23 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: New Skin coating
Will Clarke -- 11/1/2010, 12:32 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: New Skin coating
Ken Blanton -- 10/31/2010, 6:48 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: New Skin coating
Kudzu -- 10/31/2010, 4:29 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: New Skin coating
Dave Gentry -- 10/31/2010, 5:28 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: New Skin coating
Noel Bennett -- 10/31/2010, 4:26 pm