To be blunt....automotive body filler is a terrible product for tooling applications. Every physical aspect of it is substandard compared to even...
Anything that requires grinding, cutting, etc, will be creating huge amounts of micro plastics that will be impossible to completely to contain....
And now they need to figure out what to do with the many thousands of gallons of toxic waste generated by dissolving the epoxy.
Styrene is the main ingredient in gel coat that yellows and ages rapidly, so it's best not to use it. Yes, you can vary the amount of Duratec...
I'm thinking this wasn't his first venture on big water, and he understood his boat, the ocean and the weather very well. I don't see that in the...
Interesting thread. Space I'd advise doing a great deal more research on every aspect of your dream to be on the water. I'll start with part...
In a prior life I was a plant manager there.
I do understand, the wall comparison is because even if the wall is sealed 100% it's still not considered insulation, the R value is almost...
I wasn't confused by your question, I understood you wanted to understand the R value with a laminate on both sides. It's low, to the point of not...
Frequently when stronger fibers are used and the laminate becomes thinner you end up doing other things to regain stiffness and durability, or at...
As fallguy says, it's so low that it isn't worth researching or advertising on their part. Plywood has an R value, but it's not considered an...
If the keel was a separate component and attached to the hull, then it's a sacrificial piece and is intended to take a beating and look like that....
Looks like there is a core in that section, it will probably be foam or balsa wood. If it has been exposed to the weather it will be wet, this...
If what looks like air in some locations in the fabric is just thick and discolored epoxy, then it would lead me to look at the silica. Silica...
It looks like there's quite a bit of air in the laminate, plus epoxy weather's poorly, so discoloring after UV exposure is normal.
