Recent content by MindanaoTech

BYW there is proof that other people use coal tar. SK Seeker, “the boat the internet built” a 70 ft steel monohull is coated in/out with coal tar. This is only an educated guess, but why else would the same man do a video on strength test of construction adhesives bonding to coal tar if not the...

When the DOT stops using COAL TAR all over the roads in the United States then maybe I would think twice about putting on gloves when I paint with tar...on my driveway or my boats.

What are those seven asterisks? “*******” cancer? I believe it was Denorex that had the 3%, home remedies had much more, one old man on the internet eats about 1 gram of creosote(plant origin). You don’t need to defend your sources. They are published. They stand for what the contain. No one...

I wouldn’t “treat” wood. As a “qualified pest applicator” I would spray (into a soaking puddle) my lumber for termites. Just build the house boat out of old railroad ties. You can still get them wholesale for about $8 each. $3000.00 per truckload in Grand Island, Nenraska.

Ok. I’m not going to argue that there are no sources available to trump up a case against coal tar. But facts are facts- nobody gets non skin nor skin related cancers any more regularly than if they didn’t massage a 3% SUSPECTED carcinogen into their hair regularly on average 300 times!! Nor...

Hilarious. what exactly is “Cancer Studies in Humas Numerous “ ? Is that an organization? Or just some bold type paragraph heading for a surface level justification of “implying” to the public that coal tar is in fact carcinogenic because unrelated studies have been made? I went deeper into...

Creosote is not banned by the EPA. It is “restricted” from the general public. You can buy it as an insecticide from farm suppliers and paint 100s of miles of fence posts with it. You know how much a “pesticide applicator license” costs??? Probably less than a tube of “marine grade” caulking...

Cheap mass quantities of bamboo still out of reach...but the probabilities of a successful coal tar/“random width and length” bamboo slivers/nylon monofilament built 140ft saling trimaran built within the next two years will increase drastically based upon positive results from the coal...

Coming soon test results of 1x20 double diagonal ply (any length possible!) made by cold laminating scrap pallets (+/-30) with a 90% Henrys 071 and 10% Chinese doming epoxy.

Suspected carcinogen...some rats who had there ears COATED with coal twice a day for two weeks developed “lesions”...whether these were malignant tumors has not yet been disclosed to the public. NO documented tests on humans have been undertaken. There have been no class action suits filed by...

Harry Proa is great also, especially if you want to sail more. But 5 hsp disposable engine gets you 20plus miles per gallon. And if you have never built and want to look at the frog!

Research design called FROG. I think it was a catamaran but you can convert it to a proper(lol) trimaran. It was 21 or 24 ft(just use 1/2), and don’t call the outriggers hulls. Just use 6inch thin wall PVC pipe. If I’m not mixed up FROG’s hulls were three flat panels(two chines -although no...

I dropped my “kickstart” project. It would not have qualified because it was Philippine based #1 and number #2 I would not have been allowed to offer “equity” in the form of time shares which, yes I believe that regulators can do anything they want, may be the only possibility left to avoid...

As much as I hate to hijack threads...I’ll help do so anyways for the hell of it. #1) preserved only by salt water bamboo fish traps generally last about 10 years (under water). Not the same as seaworthy but still intact. The loony raft above was extremely dense and thick. There would still be...

Hmm... so if I run some numbers by of boat “costs” and include some sketchier numbers as far as agro/fishing (on board as opposed to terrestrial... if the sea based “living space” comes out on top does that mean that the cost/labor figures done in the sixties were off? Or is it just apples and...