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Brian Whatcott

On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:31:47 -0800 (PST),
wrote:

On Jan 10, 7:50 pm, "Garland Gray II" wrote:
I want to thank everyone who has given me all this good advice. I suspected
it might be a problem, so I thought I'd ask.

You have saved me a lot of frustration. Thanks again.

OK, I HAVE done this. I took some newspaper and wrapped it round a 2"
piece of pipe roughly 2' long. Next wrap that with wax paper which is
your release layer, apply the epoxied glass. It came off with no
problem, in fact, I did it twice.
I used this method to make the mast step insert for my MiniCup
sailboats.

There's something rather appealing about this approach - the paper
layers slipping over each other, so the pull gets a little easier as
it pulls off.
Perhaps instead of newspaper, cheap greaseproof paper under the wax
paper top coat. Perhaps even sprinkle a little graphite powder over
the inner layers to help the slip fit on a long pull?

Brian W