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Re: Strip: Looking for Ounces
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 5/22/2012, 1:44 am
In Response To: Re: Strip: Looking for Ounces (Malcolm Schweizer)

: I am doing an internal stem out of balsa. It just happened I had a
: lot of it on hand. It is light and serves the purpose well. I
: think I am going to use it from now on for internal stems.

: I will look at Nick's site and see what he says. He wrote the book,
: literally, but I am going to be hard to convince that end pours
: do not add weight. Not being negative here, but I just can't see
: it. I can see "it doesn't add MUCH weight." I actually
: like end pours for structure but they definately add weight.

Add weight and are expensive, epoxy isn't cheap. I use cut down pieces of WRC, weigh almost nothing and are seriously cheap.

Bill H.

Messages In This Thread

Strip: Looking for Ounces
danperry -- 5/20/2012, 6:19 pm
Re: Strip: Looking for Ounces
lewisb -- 5/20/2012, 9:48 pm
Re: Strip: Looking for Ounces
george jung -- 5/20/2012, 9:56 pm
Re: Strip: Looking for Ounces *PIC*
ancient kayaker -- 5/20/2012, 11:00 pm
Re: Strip: Looking for Ounces
danperry -- 5/20/2012, 11:16 pm
Re: Strip: Looking for Ounces
george jung -- 5/20/2012, 11:17 pm
Re: Strip: Looking for Ounces
ancient kayaker -- 5/21/2012, 9:18 am
Re: Strip: Looking for Ounces
Allan -- 5/21/2012, 1:02 am
Re: Strip: Looking for Ounces
Malcolm Schweizer -- 5/21/2012, 9:56 am
Re: Strip: Looking for Ounces
Bill Hamm -- 5/22/2012, 1:44 am
Re: Strip: Looking for Ounces
Bill Hamm -- 5/21/2012, 2:02 am
Re: Strip: Looking for Ounces
Malcolm Schweizer -- 5/21/2012, 10:02 am
Re: Strip: Looking for Ounces
Bill Hamm -- 5/22/2012, 1:46 am