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Date: 4/2/2009, 7:06 pm
OK, following this thread for future reference. So, what skin materials are less susceptible to slackening? I had not liked the Yost PVC style, because it seems impossible to get a tight skin at all. The pure/clear vinyl is interesting, if less durable; probably less slackening, if any. Nylon looked like it made a tight skin, but I hadn't expected the slackening.
: Nylon skins loosen up when they soak in cold water, and one can get a raisin
: effect. When the skin dries - and warms back up - it tightens again. Skin
: loosening is an annoying side effect, but supposedly gets better with
: repeated cycles (if so, I haven't noticed). Stick your boat out in the sun
: and see what happens.
: Or it could be what BN said about the frame.
Messages In This Thread
- Skin-on-Frame: skin went slack??
Kudzu -- 4/2/2009, 4:47 pm- Re: Skin-on-Frame: skin went slack??
Scott Shurlow -- 4/3/2009, 6:45 pm- Re: Skin-on-Frame: skin went slack??
Aaron H -- 4/3/2009, 12:17 pm- Re: Skin-on-Frame: skin went slack??
Duane Strosaker -- 4/3/2009, 12:10 am- Re: Skin-on-Frame: skin went slack??
Dave Gentry -- 4/3/2009, 6:24 am- Re: Skin-on-Frame: skin went slack??
Duane Strosaker -- 4/3/2009, 9:46 am- Re: Skin-on-Frame: skin went slack??
FrankP -- 4/3/2009, 8:14 am - Re: Skin-on-Frame: skin went slack??
- Re: Skin-on-Frame: skin went slack??
Bill Hamm -- 4/3/2009, 12:20 am - Re: Skin-on-Frame: skin went slack??
- Cotton Canvas, Painted with oil based paint. *LINK*
William Cruz -- 4/2/2009, 10:05 pm- Sew on a skin wet?
Kudzu -- 4/2/2009, 8:14 pm- Re: Sew on a skin wet?
Joy -- 4/4/2009, 3:05 pm- Re: Sew on a skin wet?
Brian Nystrom -- 4/3/2009, 9:43 am- Re: Sew on a skin wet?
Dave Gentry -- 4/2/2009, 9:09 pm - Re: Sew on a skin wet?
- Re: Skin-on-Frame: skin went slack??
Dave Gentry -- 4/2/2009, 6:26 pm- Re: Skin-on-Frame: skin went slack??
wwfloyd -- 4/2/2009, 7:06 pm- Re: Skin-on-Frame: skin went slack??
Kudzu -- 4/2/2009, 8:02 pm- Polyester is great
Jay Babina -- 4/3/2009, 10:10 am- Well I was
Kudzu -- 4/3/2009, 10:21 am- Re: Polyester is great
Kudzu -- 4/3/2009, 10:19 am - Re: Polyester is great
- Re: Skin-on-Frame: skin went slack??
Brian Nystrom -- 4/3/2009, 9:37 am- Re: Skin-on-Frame: skin went slack??
Kudzu -- 4/3/2009, 10:11 am
- Well I was
- Polyester is great
- Re: Skin-on-Frame: skin went slack??
- Happens all the time.
Brian Nystrom -- 4/2/2009, 6:01 pm - Re: Skin-on-Frame: skin went slack??
- Re: Skin-on-Frame: skin went slack??
