You can get metallic flakes to add to a clear gelcoat - should also work with other gelcoats, but I haven't tried this. Fairly important to spray...
I basically built mine like a cedar strip canoe. Works well, and there's lots of info on building. That may be a useful technique in some areas....
TI-89 Graphing Calculators Can't believe I just now stumbled onto this posting... I got a TI-89 at Christmas and I'm currently trying to set...
Check out what the homebuilt aircraft people do with foam in their planes. There are even some excellent videotapes (North American format) from...
I've downloaded most of the fasteners from Reid Tool, and I've got their catalogue as a reference. Does anyone have a link to a 2d or 3d...
Check out: http://www.turnershells.com/CONSTRUC2.HTM I should have mentioned that I catalyse at 0.5% MEKP for a pot life of about 1/2h....
Since no one else has responded I might as well weigh in with what I know about it. I spray gelcoat into a female mould when vacuum bagging...
Anyone have experience rebuilding one of these? I've been using a 3hp refridgeration compressor which doesn't really want to go over 21inHg but...
I was pretty impressed with "Care and Repair of Advanced Composites" (Armstrong and Barrett) which has a good section on vacuum bagging, plus a...
I heard about this recently from a kayak builder on the Kayak Forum. Apparently, his company sprays a urethane autobody paint into a female mould,...
I was pretty impressed by the ATC Core-cell design manual. There are a number of case studies of actual boats, and overall, I think, pretty...
I'm giving up on the gelcoat supplier I've used in Canada for the past couple of years. I've had my first warranty claim thanks to a gallon of...
Anyone had any trouble getting gelcoat to cure? The batch I've been working with took three days to cure when I sprayed the mould last January,...
I'd expect you'll be okay. After all, there isn't a whole lot of difference between what you're going to do, and having the topsides of a boat get...
I got a couple of samples of tinted kevlar cloth the other day, and they look pretty nice. There's blue, red, black (of course!) and mixed weaves....
In a question related to the previous post, has anyone used latex bladders? I used a home-made bladder to get the foam cores into the bow and...
I've got a question about vacuum bagging very thin foam core laminates. I did my second foam core hull on the weekend, and it's worked out...
I've tried vinyl ester gelcoats on my hulls and found them too brittle - the finish cracked getting the part out of the mould. As a tooling resin...
Well, that's pretty close to what I was asking about West Microlight data (and I just got an excellent reply). I'm using epoxy as a filler coat,...
I was lucky enough to have a fourth year engineering student from Limerick, Ireland contact me last year about using my hull for his fourth year...
