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Re: Hee hee hee. Been there;done that. Nobody wat
By:Tony
Date: 2/13/2001, 5:10 pm
In Response To: Flush mount hatch question (Ben Staley)

Been there, done that. Nobody watching!!

: I laid up the layers of cloth for one of the hatch lips on my guillemot last
: night using the One Ocean method...or a somewhat poor version of it
: anyway, and was wondering about the shape of channel I will end up with.
: My guess is that it will end up with a rounded trough when I am done since
: the cloth didn't really want to make the corner around the gasket tightly.
: Is this going to be a problem? Is a tight channel to gasket fit really
: important or is it just a way of lowering the height of the ledge to
: accomodate the gasket?

: I noticed that Spidey used a fillet of thickened epoxy on either side of the
: sacrifical gasket. Is this what most people do? I didn't read about anyone
: else doing this and decided to try it without.

: I was also wondering about the best way of wetting out 6 layers of cloth. It
: didn't go as smoothly as I pictured, I saturated the first layer pretty
: thick and then laid down the next few layers and dumped on more resin and
: laid the next few etc. I ended up with a lot of the frayed edges stuck to
: everything including me and I just know there has to be a better method,
: it was one of those times I had a good laugh at myself and was glad no one
: was watching. :)

: Thanks, Ben S.

Messages In This Thread

Flush mount hatch question
Ben Staley -- 2/13/2001, 1:11 pm
Re: Flush mount hatch question
Larry C. -- 2/13/2001, 7:50 pm
Re: Flush mount hatch question
Elliott -- 2/15/2001, 7:46 am
Re: Flush mount hatch question *Pic*
Larry C. -- 2/15/2001, 5:46 pm
Rotary cutters
Pete Rudie -- 2/15/2001, 11:57 am
Re: Rotary cutters
Elliott -- 2/15/2001, 2:27 pm
Re: Flush mount hatch question
Mitch Isoe -- 2/13/2001, 8:00 pm
Re: Hee hee hee. Been there;done that. Nobody wat
Tony -- 2/13/2001, 5:10 pm