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Re: Ohio? Great State! *Pic*
By:Mark Grieve
Date: 12/4/2004, 1:03 am
In Response To: Re: Ohio? Great State! (Scott Guenther)

Get the shop warm enough so that you can work comfortably and try to glue only when it will be warm enough for the brand you are using.
Two states to the west, I faced this problem a year ago. December through February were spent stripping, fairing and sanding the deck. Heat was supplied by a propane fired torpedo heater and the coldest days were spent fitting strips. When the forecast projected lows in the thirties I would warm up the shop and glue as many strips as I had ready then shut down the heat and go back to the house. I didn't even use up one 40 pound tank of propane.

Now I'm waiting on weather warm enough for the epoxy.
Mark

: Thanks for the input. I built a Bluefin S&G in the outbuilding where I plan
: to build a Guillemot Play this year. I figure that I spend the winter
: putting it together and epoxy in the spring. With S&G, I needed to keep
: the space warm for the epoxy and that ran up the electric bill. The extra
: lights sounds like a good idea along with keeping the bottle in my pocket
: and using a heat gun to warm the strips. I'm probably just too uptight
: about this whole thing, but I want the boat to look good.

: Scott

Messages In This Thread

Strip: General questions
Scott Guenther -- 12/2/2004, 6:17 pm
Re: Strip: General questions
Gennie -- 12/5/2004, 3:25 am
Re: Strip: General questions
John Monroe -- 12/4/2004, 4:30 am
Ohio? Great State!
Bill Cruz -- 12/3/2004, 2:39 pm
Re: Ohio? Great State!
Scott Guenther -- 12/3/2004, 4:41 pm
Re: Ohio? Great State!
Bill Cruz -- 12/6/2004, 3:40 pm
Re: Ohio? Great State! *Pic*
Mark Grieve -- 12/4/2004, 1:03 am
Nice strip pattern going on.... *NM*
Bill Cruz -- 12/6/2004, 3:25 pm
Re: Strip: General questions
Paul G. Jacobson -- 12/3/2004, 12:49 pm
Re: Strip: General questions
Bob May -- 12/3/2004, 12:24 pm
Re: Strip: General questions
john walker -- 12/3/2004, 11:58 am
Re: Strip: General questions
Mike Grace -- 12/7/2004, 7:00 pm
Re: Heating
Mike Scarborough -- 12/2/2004, 9:14 pm
Re: Strip: General questions
PatrickC -- 12/2/2004, 7:11 pm
Re: Strip: General questions *LINK*
gerald -- 12/2/2004, 7:04 pm
Re: Strip: General questions
Thomas Duncan -- 12/2/2004, 7:02 pm