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Re: Material: Devil in the Details
By:John Messinger
Date: 5/3/2017, 7:05 pm
In Response To: Material: Devil in the Details (Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K)

The smallest details make the difference between heaven and hell.

Now you've gone and done it, you got me started. First packing tape: don't ever use "Tyvek" tape for holding hulls together! That adhesive is miserable! Great for holding Tyvek together, but not for boat hulls made with epoxy.

3M is a good company and much of it American made. But they made a crown material called "Lava Ultimate". All the product literature made it look great.... but then the crowns started falling off. Long story short... it cost me several tens of thousands of dollars in product and time lost, plus lots of feather smoothing with hundreds of patients to finally get out of that nightmare.

Any company can change any product at any time. They might call it "NEW!!" or "IMPROVED!!!" or they might not.

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Material: Devil in the Details
Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 5/3/2017, 1:55 pm
Re: Material: Devil in the Details
bob borovicka -- 5/3/2017, 2:24 pm
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JayBabina -- 5/3/2017, 6:59 pm
Re: Material: Devil in the Details
John Messinger -- 5/3/2017, 7:05 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 5/3/2017, 9:55 pm
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Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 5/4/2017, 10:16 am