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Re: Material: fiberglass seam tape
By:Allan
Date: 12/12/2015, 10:54 pm
In Response To: Re: Material: fiberglass seam tape (Marc Donnelly)

I used tape on the inside, but nowhere near as heavy or as wide as the tape you used.

On the outside I use the strips cut from cloth as Bill described. If you cut the cloth with a pair of scissors at roughly 45 degrees to the threads they don't pull or come loose while cutting, handling our wetting out. There is no mess to tidy up.

On the other hand if you cut parallel to the strands, you will have loose strands all over the place.

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Material: fiberglass seam tape
Marc Donnelly -- 12/12/2015, 6:20 pm
Re: Material: fiberglass seam tape
Bill Hamm -- 12/12/2015, 6:41 pm
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Marc Donnelly -- 12/12/2015, 7:37 pm
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Allan -- 12/12/2015, 10:54 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 12/12/2015, 10:57 pm
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Thomas Duncan -- 12/14/2015, 7:53 am
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Bill Hamm -- 12/13/2015, 12:47 am
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Bill Hamm -- 12/13/2015, 12:50 am
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Roy Martin -- 12/14/2015, 11:46 am
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Roy Martin -- 12/14/2015, 11:47 am
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Dan Caouette (CSCWC) -- 12/14/2015, 12:15 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 12/16/2015, 3:27 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 12/15/2015, 12:26 am
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Dan Caouette (CSCWC) -- 12/15/2015, 9:02 am
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Etienne Muller -- 12/15/2015, 3:09 pm
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Marc Donnelly -- 12/15/2015, 4:54 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 12/16/2015, 1:22 am
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Dan Caouette (CSCWC) -- 12/16/2015, 7:10 am
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Roy Martin -- 12/16/2015, 2:46 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 12/16/2015, 3:28 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 12/12/2015, 10:51 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 12/13/2015, 3:24 am
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Marc Donnelly -- 12/13/2015, 6:50 am
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Dan Thaler -- 12/13/2015, 7:39 am