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by frugal
Thu Apr 03, 2008 6:41 am
Forum: Builders' Forum
Topic: single fibregalss sheet versus two sheets
Replies: 1
Views: 1460

single fibregalss sheet versus two sheets

A friend and I are preparing for the fibreglassing of our Redbird and we just ordered the eepoxy from Raka. The guy we spoke to at Raka recommended using two sheets of fibreglass instead of a single sheet. I have seen a lot of posts where two sheets are discussed because a sheet wide enough was not ...
by frugal
Thu Apr 03, 2008 6:37 am
Forum: Builders' Forum
Topic: fishing line method
Replies: 23
Views: 13333

If you use the search tool in this forum and type in "fishing and line" or "stapleless and construction" without the quotes you will find a lot of posts on this that include photos. You will have to use the search tool a number of times because hitting the back button in your bro...
by frugal
Tue Mar 18, 2008 11:09 am
Forum: Builders' Forum
Topic: Planking questions
Replies: 6
Views: 2156

One suggestion I would make before you cut the stations is that you might want to consider carrying the curves past the sheer line for stations 0-5. When we cut these stations out we cut them in at the sheer line. Now we are considering adding one more strip above the sheer line and the forms will n...
by frugal
Mon Mar 17, 2008 5:46 pm
Forum: Builders' Forum
Topic: Specialty tools and other questions
Replies: 12
Views: 4294

My friend and I are going throught the process now making a 16 foot Redbird. One thing not mentioned yet is a decent shopvac as a minimum. You will make a lot of sawdust with cutting and routing the strips. An additional item that I did not know about until after the routing was done is a cyclone li...