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Re: Material: styrofoam boats?
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 8/3/2008, 2:09 am
In Response To: Material: styrofoam boats? (PatrickC)

: What is the feasability of making forms from the 2" thick 8'x4'
: styrofoam sheets from home depo? Then you could add forms between the
: forms to fill in all gaps, sand smooth and glass it over...then do the
: cockpit.

: Sounds like a fast way to make a boat?

It can work. Styrofoam is fairly easily carved, a sureform file makes short work of it, but it's grossly messy, the foam dust gets everywhere, do it outside if you can. One thing to remember is the 2.2 lb. density foam has very little impact strength, so even with glass on the outside any impact will cause the glass/foam bond to break.

If the design is hard chined it's actually faster to prototype with SOF, ie: Tom Yost's building method.

Bill H.

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Material: styrofoam boats?
PatrickC -- 8/2/2008, 12:30 pm
Re: Material: styrofoam boats?
Bill Hamm -- 8/5/2008, 5:12 am
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dave -- 8/4/2008, 12:45 pm
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Chris Ostlind -- 8/4/2008, 4:44 pm
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Chris Ostlind -- 8/3/2008, 12:18 pm
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Mike Wolfson -- 8/4/2008, 6:47 am
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PatrickC -- 8/4/2008, 9:00 am
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Charlie -- 8/4/2008, 10:10 am
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Bill Hamm -- 8/3/2008, 2:12 am
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Bill Hamm -- 8/3/2008, 2:09 am
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Charlie -- 8/2/2008, 1:22 pm
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Glen Smith -- 8/2/2008, 1:16 pm
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Charlie -- 8/2/2008, 1:36 pm
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Glen Smith -- 8/2/2008, 2:31 pm
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Glen Smith -- 8/2/2008, 2:41 pm
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PatrickC -- 8/3/2008, 12:35 am
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Charlie -- 8/3/2008, 11:20 am
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PatrickC -- 8/3/2008, 1:08 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 8/4/2008, 1:20 am
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PatrickC -- 8/4/2008, 10:29 pm
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Paul G. Jacobson -- 8/9/2008, 5:53 am
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Bill Hamm -- 8/10/2008, 1:27 am
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PatrickC -- 8/10/2008, 9:32 pm
Re: Material: styrofoam boats?
Bill Hamm -- 8/11/2008, 1:37 am
Re: Material: styrofoam boats?
Bill Hamm -- 8/5/2008, 5:08 am