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Re: Strip: Construction Order
By:tony olsen
Date: 3/9/2009, 6:00 pm
In Response To: Strip: Construction Order (mtkayak)

Sounds like a pretty good plan, but if the hot glue is really stuck, I'd at least free it up from the hull immediately after the flip. You can run a very thin wire or cable between the form and the hull to separate the two, much like when they remove a windshield.
Good luck!
tony

: I'm thinking: -sand, fair, and fiberglass the hull now
: -flip the hull, trim the fiberglass at the sheer and begin stripping the deck
: -get a good start on the deck, at least the sheer and a few more strip in
: -detach the hull from the forms for the first time by removing hot glue from
: inside the hull
: -finish stripping the deck
: -fair, sand and fiberglass the deck
: -cut in the cockpit coaming and hatches
: -fair, sand and fiberglass insides of both hull and deck

: Does this sound right?

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Strip: Construction Order
mtkayak -- 3/9/2009, 1:32 pm
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mtkayak -- 3/12/2009, 11:36 am
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Bill Hamm -- 3/13/2009, 8:48 am
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Rob Macks / Laughing Loon CC&K -- 3/12/2009, 8:01 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 3/11/2009, 4:29 pm
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risto -- 3/11/2009, 8:58 am
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Rob Macks / Laughing Loon CC&K -- 3/10/2009, 10:09 am
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tony olsen -- 3/9/2009, 6:00 pm