Noahs advertising in Messing About in Boats, Buffalo and Toronto, and noahsmarine.com. I got some recently and it looks good. Clyde...
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Chuck Leinweber
chuck@...
Jun 5, 2000 1:17 pm
I have used all kinds of thickeners for epoxy: I have used Cabosil, fine sawdust, flour, lime, etc, but today I used the best yet: Fumed Silica from Raka. It...
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Richard Spelling
richard@...
Jun 5, 2000 1:36 pm
(Hi Chuck) What does it cost, and how hard it it to sand? Should it be used as a structural or a fairing putty? ... From: Chuck Leinweber To:...
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Leander S. Harding
lharding@...
Jun 5, 2000 1:52 pm
I was talking to a friend about possibly renting a power plane for mast building and he offered the use of a 6" tilting bed planer-joiner. Venerable old...
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Richard Spelling
richard@...
Jun 5, 2000 2:16 pm
Not really to round it out, but you could use it make the mast blank nice and strait prior to the rounding operation. Probably, though, it is more trouble than...
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Paul A. Lefebvre, Jr.
paul@...
Jun 5, 2000 2:29 pm
Here's my 2 cents, for what it's worth: I own two folding kayaks - a Klepper and a Nautiraid, both have wooden frames. The Klepper (1967 vintage) has ash...
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Gatza, Ed
egatza@...
Jun 5, 2000 2:36 pm
Thanks, Pippo. Ed...
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Chris Crandall
crandall@...
Jun 5, 2000 2:43 pm
... WHile living in Gainesville, Florida (the lightning capital of the world), I was fortunate enough to hear a presentation by an engineer who talked about...
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Chuck Leinweber
chuck@...
Jun 5, 2000 2:47 pm
Hey, Richard, enjoyed the pictures from the tx-ok-ark messabout. Thank your lovely wife for that. I have not sanded the stuff yet, but I will let you know. I...
4945
glen_gibson@...
Jun 5, 2000 3:32 pm
I bought a power planer through e-bay, payed less than $36, and I love it. It's one of those "Chicago Electric" models, just search for "hand planer" or "power...
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William D> Jochems
wjochems@...
Jun 5, 2000 3:52 pm
Bjorn, Your proposed outhaul arrangement should work for me. It will result in the block being far enough aft. Bill ... From: Bjorn Harbo <bharbo@...> ...
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William D> Jochems
wjochems@...
Jun 5, 2000 4:09 pm
In reply to Chris Crandall, I asked originally if a wooden boat, with an unstayed wooden mast, should be equipped with lightning protection. Isn't such a boat,...
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GHC
ghartc@...
Jun 5, 2000 4:19 pm
The Light Schooner has several rectangular sections that afford opportunities to compare diagonal measurements. (Until the bottom is on, nail a batten...
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Richard Spelling
richard@...
Jun 5, 2000 5:28 pm
If you want my 2 cents, at the voltages we are talking about, a wooden mast is almost as good a conductor of (static) electricity as a metal one. If you are...
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Jeff Gilbert
jgilbert@...
Jun 5, 2000 6:23 pm
Gregg, Its a cerebral thing for me. I just dont feels safe without the layer of glass, even if light. Even if the boat isnt in the water much. There are other...
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Richard Spelling
richard@...
Jun 5, 2000 6:31 pm
Had a chunk of plywood about three inches long and one inch wide torn out of the bottom of Entropy the other day due to a nice hard grounding on a sharp rock....
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Sakari Aaltonen
sakaria@...
Jun 5, 2000 6:35 pm
Richard Spelling wrote ... But isn't the very point of metal lightning conductors that they discharge into ground, immediately, any charge that comes their...
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LEA, PHILLIP B
plea@...
Jun 5, 2000 6:52 pm
In reference to reefing my Junebug sprit rig, Lincoln Ross wrote on May 31, ... NO attempt is made to reef while underway - I do not have a halyard (maybe add...
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Richard Spelling
richard@...
Jun 5, 2000 6:58 pm
... can ... I always thought that the point of the lightning conductors was to discharge the strike into the ground and not the boat/house/etc. If the rod had...
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Sakari Aaltonen
sakaria@...
Jun 5, 2000 8:34 pm
Richard Spelling wrote ... OK, let's picture a marina with 21 sailboats. 20 wooden masts, one metal one. All 21 masts are equally tall and equally pointy. ...
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Chris Crandall
crandall@...
Jun 5, 2000 8:51 pm
... Nobody knows. Lightning is not predictable like that. Chris Crandall crandall@... (785) 864-4131 Department of Psychology University of...
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Richard Spelling
richard@...
Jun 5, 2000 8:52 pm
Excluding edge effects (more chance to hit on the sides and corners), effectivly random. I could certainly be wrong, I'm not a lightning specialist. Unlike the...
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Orr, Jamie
jorr@...
Jun 5, 2000 8:58 pm
Thought I'd jump in with some questions. If a mast has wire shrouds and stays, does it matter what the mast is made of -- assuming it does with no shrouds and...
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Chris Crandall
crandall@...
Jun 5, 2000 9:00 pm
... and ... I heard on the radio yesterday, a engineer doing some research on lightning found that sharp pointy lightning rods rec'd far fewer strikes than...
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Richard Spelling
richard@...
Jun 5, 2000 9:12 pm
interesting It is concentrated on tall things, and discharged into the air on the pointy parts? So, Bill, you should have a lightning system that has pointy...
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Richard Spelling
richard@...
Jun 5, 2000 9:21 pm
Don't you love the internet? http://wvlightning.com/myths.html "For instance, if there are two posts of the same height in a field, one wood and one steel, if...
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Richard Spelling
richard@...
Jun 5, 2000 9:25 pm
I'm sure these pages answer those questions: http://www.lightningrods.com/ ... From: "Orr, Jamie" <jorr@...> To: <bolger@egroups.com> Sent: Monday, June...
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Chris Crandall
crandall@...
Jun 5, 2000 9:47 pm
... You don't suppose they'll end up suggesting you buy their product, do you? ... Chris Crandall crandall@... (785) 864-4131 Department of...
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Harry W. James
welshman@...
Jun 5, 2000 9:49 pm
Two bits more on birch. During world war II and the lend lease program there were many hangars built along the airplane road to Russia across the North. When I...
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Chris Crandall
crandall@...
Jun 5, 2000 9:53 pm
... Stays will carry a current, yes, but the juice would prefer to follow down through the nice big metal mast. ... My expert says "jumper cable size" (and not...
