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Another hatch lip question
By:Don Beale
Date: 7/11/2000, 4:58 pm

These hatch lip questions are popular, so I thought I'd chip in.

Joe advocates using scrap strips in his instructions, to make a wooden lip, and then glassing over it with a single layer of 6oz. I did my "scrap strips" to recess the lip for 1/8" gasket.

Nick, on the other hand, advocates positioning the hatch 1/8" low and glassing several layers to make a glass lip. This would seem to me to be a little faster. Any comments on the comparison between the two methods?

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Another hatch lip question
Don Beale -- 7/11/2000, 4:58 pm
Re: Another hatch lip question
Spidey -- 7/14/2000, 10:40 pm