Clean the aluminum with abrasive round pads (I used the purple ones, black is too abrasive) on a feather edger. The metal will come up almost like stainless....
One my 36 footers, coming home to BC from Hawaii, encountered hurricane force winds. His KISS wind generator was locked by the electric switch. It billowed...
Greets: New to the group. Was wondering if there is a better way to search the archives and posts then using the yahoo search feature. Was wondering since its...
Thanks James...llikewise To be honest the thought process is slowly evolving towards a metal boat of some kind some day. Lots of questions hence the search...
I have been a self-confessed ferrocement freak since my teens, and have collected all the information I can get about concrete and ferrocement ships and boats,...
First, I can weld well already, and no need for schooling for that. And some of my friends are professional welders who will lend me a hand .... I may go steel...
... I'm mirroring/archiving the group here: http://okopnik.com/origami/ I've also written a pretty decent search engine for it (see the "advanced search help"...
Finally! a friend and a fellow believer! likewise, I do not have much ... only found a few sites online about ferrocement submarines ... gleaning whatever...
Gee Ben...really like your email address. Good to know some linux folks are on the list. This makes stuff a lot easier. Thanks for doing this. /ch ... -- /ch ...
You can do a search of the MESSAGES using Google with a search syntax like this: twin keel site:groups.yahoo.com/group/origamiboats However, I don't think you...
Right now I'm not working on anything except my usual packrat-style accumulation of technical information. I've got a family of five (household of 7) plus a...
Marc, are you the guy who trades in technical literature? A very long time ago I was looking for a truly obscure text on pulsating combustion and could only...
... Glad to help, Chris. As far as LG goes, though - I handed it off to a team of editors a couple of months ago; five years of running it was more than...
Sorry I was thinking you were talking about a boat in the 30 to 50 ft range. I don't know anything at all about submarines :) especially in ferrocement. Scott...
Mickey, Thanks to you, and everyone else who posted suggestions, on how to get paint to adhere to aluminum. Should be enough suggestions made for me to find...
So THAT's why your name seems familiar. Yes, I'm that document dealer, and I do have a fantastic collection to which I am constantly adding. Unfortunately,...
Sorry to here that as it was a good source for a while. I was hopping to sit and lurk on this list and learn about building origami steel boats. Not much...
Hahahahaha, the world is a small place. Good luck with your business. And yes, I'd like to see our list. Thanks. Bruno ... [Non-text portions of this...
You're gonna make some, your gonna catch some, hell, you're even gonna pass some. Water storage, how much do you need on a blue water boat? I'm not sailing...
... Depends on you and your crew, of course - but it seems to me that you've already got the right attitude which is 90% of the game. Me, I found that cruising...
I have seen pictures of the badpirate in aluminum in construction. Are those longitudinal in the original design? Seem to rigid to bend together with the...
I once left mexico with 28 gallons in a tank, which still had a lot in it 38 days later when I arived back in BC. I once left Bora bora with 55 gallons of...
Total weight of any boat in full time use is dependent on the owner and how much of a pack rat he is. I gave Ercan the option of changing the centreline so she...
I had a party on my boat this summer in caddy bay. I counted them, I had 34 people on board at one time, boat sunk about three or four inches in the water,...
I was geting similar messages threatening to close my yahoo acount, then asking for my password. When I asked yahoo about it, they said they never ask for you...
With a submersible, you need a lot of weight to give you neutral buoyancy, over 3 inches thick for a 30 inch pipe. While ferro is low strength in tension, it...
How silly... I have traveled all over the world with two laptops and numerous hard drives, cameras and never once have I been asked anything by any security...
