On Friday, November 9, 2012 1:59:30 PM UTC-5, wrote:
I was just at West MArine and happened to see some "outrigger backing plates", ewwwwwwww, pretty shiny aluminum............$68.00 WHOA, are they kidding?

Good GAWD, my CNC mill could do those for nearly nuthin. Even better, I could do it out of my fav material, G10, garolite and it wouldnt cause corrosion.

What Y'all fishy people think? Do people really pay that much for a couple pieces of shiny aluminum with holes in em?

G10 grade Garolite is amazing stuff. Stronger than steel and lighter than aluminum is an epoxy/glass high density composite. IF you use it instead of Aluminum, you have no corrosion problems. I used it for backing plates on my homebuilt boats. Biggest problem is that it wears out tools but as we use a lot of it, we can deal with that.
There is something even better coming out that is almost as strong as carbon fiber epoxy composite but considerable less expensive. It is like G10 but uses basaltic glass.

So, you fishing people, would it pay to make some of em and sell em on e-bay?