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Re: Strip: Kayak Build - quick update
By:Rob Macks
Date: 10/9/2014, 9:43 am
In Response To: Re: Strip: Kayak Build - quick update (wanderfalk)

Rob I have endured some of the larger stations expanding more than 1/8 of an inch from morning to evening work sessions. That amount of moment pulls the center line of the keel off by 1/16 of a inch. I use some of the cheap water based sealers on baltic birch it raises the grain leaving a rough surface that seems to hold the glue.

Are you sure it is the baltic plywood expanding? Is that a solid core? Hard to imagine any small piece of plywood moving that much. How are you measuring that?

Now I have seen stations pulled out of alignment by more strips on one side than the other as, the strips expand and contract over a day's temperature/humidity changes.

You must also have some great temperature humidity changes!

All the best,
Rob

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Mochaboy -- 10/7/2014, 4:13 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 10/7/2014, 4:51 pm
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Mike Bielski -- 10/8/2014, 1:28 am
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JohnAbercrombie -- 10/7/2014, 4:58 pm
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Mochaboy -- 10/7/2014, 7:36 pm
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Thomas Duncan -- 10/8/2014, 10:33 am
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Bill Hamm -- 10/7/2014, 5:14 pm
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Mike Bielski -- 10/8/2014, 1:31 am
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JohnAbercrombie -- 10/8/2014, 11:27 am
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Dan Caouette (CSCWC) -- 10/8/2014, 11:37 am
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Mike Bielski -- 10/8/2014, 11:55 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 10/8/2014, 4:45 pm
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Marc Upchurch -- 10/7/2014, 5:41 pm
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Mochaboy -- 10/7/2014, 7:38 pm
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Robert Horstmann -- 10/8/2014, 8:52 am
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Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 10/8/2014, 1:01 pm
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wanderfalk -- 10/8/2014, 10:36 pm
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Rob Macks -- 10/9/2014, 9:43 am
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dave koslow -- 10/9/2014, 2:52 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 10/10/2014, 9:19 am