I'm new to this group and new to boat building. Having just completed a nifty little D4 (yet to see water) I have become interested in trying one of these...
Went out price checking this morning. I found exterior glue 5.5mm Luan underlayment at home depot. Is this ok to use instead of the traditional 1/4" Plywood?...
I would imagine that an exterior glued luan ply would be fine, loads of people use it (even scotty at smallboats.com I believe). The standard "acid test" is...
I used this Luan to build a Toto. Turned out to be about 45 lbs. Can't say about long term durability as it was completed this past fall and has only been ...
... Toto is one of the boats I intend to build. How did you finish it? On all the other boats I've built, I epoxy glass over the inside and the outside both....
... I will give that a try. Sailing through boiling water should be a real experience. I have canoed up streams, down streams, mild white water, over dam...
... To me, a better test is the "leave a small piece in the automatic diswhasher for a dozen wash / dry cycles" test. Anyone besides me going sailing or...
... completed ... In 2002, about 12 home-built boats were there. In 2001, about 15 home-built boats were there. There aint no telling how many will show-up, ...
Besides the joints, I only glassed the bottom panel. I did use 4" tape instead of the 2 I think the plan calls for. Easier to work with. Toto tracks well, I...
... I forget whose quote I was nicking, it does seem laughable, but steam is a pretty nasty material, so it does make sense, the wood will be exposed to water ...
Has anyone considered epoxie laminating some sort of paper to the plywood interior of a boat? Not for strength, but to control checking and to get a nice...
gbb: I had the same idea, and have tried it on a boat of mine. This was a cheap canoe boat built of Luan ply, which does not check like Doug Fir and S Y Pine...
... Enough about going sailing tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!! I looked out the window last night and this morning and all I see is white!!! Lakes are frozen and we got...
... I was not thinking of a fixed seat. What I had in mind was to use a hole saw drill a spaced series of 1 inch holes through the center of something like a...
Indeed, David, I have used lots of MDO, and I love the stuff. In this case, I only needed a couple of small pieces of ply, and did not have any MDO of the...
boil it without coatings, you're finding out how good the glue bond is Al __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll...
... use ... epoxy. ... No I did not know that boiling water will melt epoxy resin. I thought fiberglass and epoxy resins were nearly impervious to most ...
... depends which book you read. I'd guess an hour will be more than enough to tell you if you need to worry. Then again, I built a mouseboat using interior...
... epoxy has a fairly low melting point, I think it's technically a protein type plastic, so it "denatures" at protein temperatures. Don't quote me on that ...
... Epoxy is strong and impervious to most solvents, but it's Achilles heel is heat. That is good if you want to clean hardened resin from metal tools - just...
That's an excellent idea. I too enjoy a seat to lean back on especially while fishing. Bill ... __________________________________________________ Do you...
... most ... heel is ... tools - ... weather. In ... you have to ... Ok,,I knew that it had to be protected from the UV rays, as do we all. I did not know...
... Seems age has dictated a little more comfort than required by the twenty somethings. It was the only thing I could think of that would allow multiple...
... Probably the biggest difference between the two (outside of the fact that poly smells awful) is the adhesion. Epoxy will stick to wood about 10 times ...
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