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Re: Announce: Recessed Fitting Installation Video
By:JohnAbercrombie
Date: 11/21/2016, 5:09 pm
In Response To: Announce: Recessed Fitting Installation Video *PIC* (Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks)

Thanks for that video and details, Nick.
Very elegant, especially with the 'teardrop' shape.

Have you tested the strength of those fittings?
(e.g. with a cockpit half-filled with water can you lift the boat?)

Most of the curly maple sticks I've seen snap pretty easily, but I guess the single layer of glass adds quite a bit of strength?

I thought I'd seen your fittings with the wood bar concealing a SS rod, but I must be mistaken.

Do you worry about line chafe inside the fitting?

Messages In This Thread

Announce: Recessed Fitting Installation Video *PIC*
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 11/21/2016, 3:26 pm
Re: Announce: Recessed Fitting Installation Video
JohnAbercrombie -- 11/21/2016, 5:09 pm
Re: Announce: Recessed Fitting Installation Video *PIC*
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 11/21/2016, 8:02 pm
Re: Announce: Recessed Fitting Installation Video *PIC*
Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 11/21/2016, 5:23 pm
Re: Announce: Recessed Fitting Installation Video *PIC*
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 11/21/2016, 7:55 pm
Re: Announce: Recessed Fitting Installation Video
John Messinger -- 11/22/2016, 8:27 am
Re: Announce: Recessed Fitting Installation Video
Dan Caouette (CSCWC) -- 11/22/2016, 11:12 am
Re: Announce: Recessed Fitting Installation Video
Brian Nystrom -- 11/22/2016, 7:35 pm