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If going the dacron route?
By:Bob
Date: 8/25/2015, 10:59 am
In Response To: Skin-on-Frame: skinning with PVC fabric on aluminum tube gunnels? *PIC* (Bob)

Thank you all for your replies!

I suppose what I can do is hold on the PVC fabric and save it for a potential folding kayak project - Yost Falco?

If going with the shrinkable skin like dacron - going a few steps further and putting fiberglass ontop wouldn't make the project too much more complicated ? I the big turn off for me is the stitching (part of the reason the pvc fabric was attractive to me) - I think I recently read somewhere folks were gluing dacron? If so -does anyone know if they were glueing the dacron to each other or to the frame?

Thanks again,

Bob

Messages In This Thread

Skin-on-Frame: skinning with PVC fabric on aluminum tube gunnels? *PIC*
Bob -- 8/24/2015, 10:50 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: skinning with PVC fabric on alu
Marc Upchurch -- 8/24/2015, 8:48 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: skinning with PVC fabric on alu
Paul Montgomery -- 8/24/2015, 11:51 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: skinning with PVC fabric on alu
Bill Hamm -- 8/25/2015, 5:41 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: skinning with PVC fabric on alu
Dave Gentry -- 8/25/2015, 10:34 am
If going the dacron route?
Bob -- 8/25/2015, 10:59 am
Re: If going the dacron route?
Bill Hamm -- 8/25/2015, 3:05 pm
Re: If going the dacron route?
Bill Hamm -- 8/25/2015, 3:11 pm
Re: If going the dacron route?
Bob -- 8/25/2015, 3:25 pm
Re: If going the dacron route?
Bill Hamm -- 8/25/2015, 3:41 pm
Re: If going the dacron route? *PIC*
Bob -- 8/25/2015, 4:56 pm
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Bob -- 8/25/2015, 5:59 pm
Re: If going the dacron route?
Bill Hamm -- 8/26/2015, 12:39 am
Re: If going the dacron route?
Marc Upchurch -- 8/26/2015, 1:31 am
Re: If going the dacron route?
Bob -- 8/26/2015, 10:00 am
Re: If going the dacron route?
Bill Hamm -- 8/26/2015, 2:02 pm
Re: If going the dacron route?
Bob -- 8/26/2015, 4:09 pm
Re: If going the dacron route?
Bill Hamm -- 8/26/2015, 4:43 pm
Re: If going the dacron route?
Bob -- 8/26/2015, 5:08 pm
Re: If going the dacron route?
Bill Hamm -- 8/26/2015, 6:53 pm
Re: If going the dacron route?
Marc Upchurch -- 8/26/2015, 5:59 pm
Re: If going the dacron route?
Ian Cummins -- 8/25/2015, 3:35 pm