Boat - Good News.....And Bad

[Guest stevie cop]

It sounds like a good idea Ken. Would fibre glass resin stick to it? If it would, I reckon it would be better than plywood.

[Ken Davison South Wales]

You may have to sand the face adjacent to the fibre glass.

 

I will try on Tuesday when I return from fishing.

[Toerag]

Re- polypropylene sheet - Go look at www.offshore105.com, they don't use wood in Offshore's anymore, they use honeycomb matrix coated with fibreglass called Nyplast I think. You will need to do the stainless plate over the top to prevent your outboard clamps punching holes through it though. Worth a look?

[Sharkbyte]

At the risk of sounding like a doughnut, how do I go about posting pics on A/N? 640/480?

[Guest stevie cop]

I asked the same question a few weeks back. If you look for the thread called, "what do I do?", it'll be on there somewhere.

[Davy Holt]

simple

 

upload your pictures to anywhere on the net, I can put them up if need be.

 

then take the complete web address of the pic and past it on to here putting at the end of it, making sure there are no spaces.

[Sharkbyte]

Cheers guys, I'll have a go.

[Elton]

http://www.anglersnet.co.uk/pictures.htm

[chris parker]

Elton, tip for you with resins and boats. Clean all the existing surfaces you plan to bond to with acetone, it is the only thing I know that will remove the wax and uncatalysed styrene in the existing laminate. It is available from Glasplies, it's really worth it's cost. It will also remove resin that has not hardened. If you are going to use the solid or washer type rollers for consolidating your lamination you can keep them rolling by putting in a container of Acetone with a cover of clingfilm.

[Elton]

Cheers, Chris.

 

I think I'm going to have to get some kind of shopping list together here.

 

This is getting more frightening by the minute