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Re: Other: Spray skirt finished...
By:Rick Allnutt
Date: 5/2/2003, 9:00 am
In Response To: Other: Spray skirt finished... *LINK* (Gary Rensberger)

Hi Gary,

Just a thought for an alternate way to easily make the tower... I have not done this, but intend to the next time I build a skirt:

Make two disks out of plywood, one the diameter of the bottom of the spray skirt tower, and one the diameter of the top band... assuming a conical shape. Screw each of these disks to a 2x4 piece, a little like they are forms on a strongback. Then use strips like we use in building kayaks to fill in the gaps. Glue or don't glue - your choice. This is a lot easier way to build a tower than using sheets of aluminum, cardboard or other ways suggested by the article. It allows a custom fitting tower, instead of a straight sided cylinder, and the whole thing does not take more than about 15 minutes to put together.

Rick

Messages In This Thread

Other: Spray skirt finished... *LINK*
Gary Rensberger -- 5/1/2003, 9:52 pm
Re: Other: Spray skirt - nylon vs neoprene
Chris Moore -- 5/3/2003, 5:48 pm
Re: Other: Spray skirt - nylon vs neoprene *LINK*
John D. -- 5/3/2003, 10:43 pm
Neoprene Eh!
Ken Sutherland -- 5/4/2003, 5:42 pm
Re: Neoprene Eh!
Shawn Baker -- 5/5/2003, 9:33 pm
Re: Neoprene Eh!
Ken Sutherland -- 5/6/2003, 7:18 pm
Re: Other: Spray skirt finished...
Shawn Baker -- 5/2/2003, 5:45 pm
Re: Other: Spray skirt finished...
Rick Allnutt -- 5/2/2003, 9:00 am
Re: Other: Spray skirt finished...
Eric -- 5/3/2003, 6:33 am
Re: Other: Spray skirt finished...
Gary Rensberger -- 5/2/2003, 7:37 pm
Re: Other: Spray skirt finished...
John D. -- 5/2/2003, 12:59 pm
Re: Other: Spray skirt finished...
Shawn Baker -- 5/2/2003, 5:50 pm
Re: Other: Spray skirt finished...
Reg Lake -- 5/3/2003, 10:49 am
Re: Other: Spray skirt finished...
Gary Rensberger -- 5/5/2003, 11:02 am
Re: Other: Spray skirt finished...
John D. -- 5/2/2003, 7:05 pm
Re: Other: Spray skirt finished...
Jim Kozel -- 5/1/2003, 10:30 pm
Re: Other: Spray skirt finished...
Gary Rensberger -- 5/1/2003, 10:46 pm
Re: Other: Spray skirt finished...
Tony W. -- 5/2/2003, 7:22 am
Re: Other: Spray skirt finished...
Gary Rensberger -- 5/3/2003, 12:50 am