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Balsa deck core
I presume you are saying that all my secondary bonds like bulkheads, liners,
water and fuel tank supports are about to let go. Epoxy has it's place, ultrlight racing boats where the same strength can be had at much lower weight and as a glue resorcinol is a pain. I live e in what used to be the hub of boatbuilding in Canada and have seen many boats new and old repaired with the same material they were built in that is polyester none that I know of have yet disintegrated. John "DSK" wrote in message .. . "Jim Conlin" wrote ... I figure it'd be somewhat over $10/ft^2. Core-cell $4- maybe 4 laminations of: 12 oz. knitted Glass $10/yd = $.80/ft^2/ply epoxy $70/gal = $.60/ft^2/ply paint $1/ft^2 plus abrasives, peel ply, fillers, vacuum bag consumables Vacuum bagging it would be the way to go for bond strength, but knitted glass? I didn't think that was all that cost effective? One thing I would like to mention is that hardware store F'glass cloth is NOT worth it. It's actually a bit more expensive than most mail order, plus it's crappy quality. John M wrote: Just wondering do you guys that use epoxy for everything also use titanium for auto body repairs after all it's better than steel. It seems rather silly to repair a polyester and glass boat which is old with epoxy and the latest high tech fabrics. Why not try resin infusion too Actually, it's not silly at all. Secondary bonding with polyester is rather iffy... nowhere near as strong and what's more important, less reliable (more prone to voids, imperfectly mixed resin, more temp sensitive, etc etc) so it's less likely to achieve it's best strength. Epoxy is not that much more expensive (considering the expense entailed by owning the rest of the boat too) and that little extra is very well worth it IMHO. The last boat I did extensive rebuild work on was an old Lightning... considering that I bought new trailer tires & bearings (or would you advocate buying cheaper used ones?), new running rigging, new sails, and fairly nice paint (now this could have been economised on, but would it have looked as good), the 2 gallons of epoxy that I used to do structural work was trivial... and I sailed that boat in 20+ knot winds many times, never broke anything that I'd worked on with epoxy. The first few times I was nervous, but after that became very confident in the strength of my work. BTW this included relamating some patches of deck as well as installing a new mainsheet bridle & traveller, which comes under quite heavy strain. OTOH I have seen other boats suffer structural failure in strong winds... it doesn't look like much fun, but perhaps the skippers are telling themselves they're glad they didn't spend the money as they take the pieces home. DSK |
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