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Re: Crack in the kayak
By:Shawn Baker
Date: 10/18/1999, 9:43 am
In Response To: Crack in the kayak (Fritjof Karlsson)

Is it possible he over-sanded the glass and cut into the glass fibers, making a weak spot? Or did the pressure of the failing strip itself cause the glass failure? No good answers, but some more good questions!!

Shawn

> One strip in my friends kayak has cracked or split or what ever you call
> it, and torned a hole in the glasfiber. This happend while it was stored,
> not by external force. He used only one layer of glasfiber. Would more
> layers help? Fritjof

Messages In This Thread

Crack in the kayak
Fritjof Karlsson -- 10/18/1999, 3:23 am
Re: Crack in the kayak
Shawn Baker -- 10/18/1999, 9:43 am
Re: Crack in the kayak
Fritjof -- 10/19/1999, 2:00 am
Re: Crack in the kayak
lee -- 10/19/1999, 2:19 am