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Meyer[_2_]

On 11/11/2012 8:01 AM, wrote:
On Sunday, November 11, 2012 12:19:05 AM UTC-5, wrote:
On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 20:06:40 -0800 (PST), wrote:

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?

The good thing about Ebay is it costs virtually nothing to try. Bang
out a few, float them out there at an obscene profit (still a third of
We$t Marine) and see what happens.
My guess is these are not huge volume sellers but that is what Ebay is
for if you just want beer money..

Just make sure to describe them well so they'll get hits when someone googles for the product.

I needed to replace the "flavor bars" in my Weber grill. Weber makes them in porcelained steel or stainless ($$). When looking I got a hit from someone selling replacements on ebay that were stainless, thicker gauge than weber's, for about 60% the cost. Made by someone at a metal fab shop that had the shear and brake to cut and bend them. Great product.

Old bed frames make great flavor bars. Cut em with a hack saw or
whatever. Make sure you burn the paint off before cooking over them.