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steam bending plywood
William R. Watt ) writes:
I just remembered that transom is two layers of 1/5" lauan underlayment laminated with plastic resin glue. Of course that's the same as bending one layer of 1'5" underlayment. If you look closely at some of the photos ^^^^ and THAT should have been 1/5" I also see your transom is not 22" wide but 22" high, and 26" wide. You still can't have a 4" radius in a 26" wide transom. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ William R Watt National Capital FreeNet Ottawa's free community network homepage: www.ncf.ca/~ag384/top.htm warning: non-freenet email must have "notspam" in subject or it's returned |
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steam bending plywood
To clarify... the template (to fit over the buck that I made) is 26"
wide at its widest point.... but this includes the radii + several inches of material that goes back along the side before the scarfs to join the transom and the sides. This maximum width is at is at the 12" radius area..... at the bottom the template is substantially narrower.... The area being covered is the surface of a conic section and so the template looks like a piece of pie with the tip cut off at a radius... let me see if I can do it in ascii art _ _ _- -_ \ / \ / \ / \n/ template Kind of.... with the scarfs along the edges. The bottom will be bending around the tight 4" radius and the top around the 12" radius. Does this make more sense? Kevin |
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steam bending plywood
I want the transom to look something like this when completed.
http://www.montanaboatbuilders.com/skiff.htm Jason Cajune (who builds the boats in the pictures) does masterful work... and build the transoms by steam bending and torturing layers of ply over a buck.... Kevin |
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