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Re: Material: Cardboard surfboard- very interestin
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 11/13/2009, 11:11 pm

: I spent far too much time reading the WHOLE site earlier today.
: It DOES seem to raise more questions than it answers, but most of
: them are INTERESTING questions (-:

: I think he doesn't depend much on trying to get epoxy to flow down
: and form any sort of filet between the cardboard segments for
: strength.
: There is one point where he alludes to appearance problems that
: will result from putting too much epoxy on and having it drool
: through to the opposite skin.
: It SEEMS that there is a dependence on the cardboard segments being
: short and stuck to each skin, though not necessarily to each
: other.
: I would expect some amount of wicking, so maybe there is a short
: filet part way on some of the joints, but he doesn't count on
: it.
: The skin spans small ('ish) areas too, so I'm guessing that the
: strength comes from having many very small boxes with a common
: "lid" and "bottom".

: Anyhow, I found the whole idea of making many many
: "forms" only a few inches apart, in 3 directions and
: from such an unusual material to be novel, fun, interesting,
: etc.

: I guess I would tend towards a more water resistant material, but
: CARDBOARD ?! - just might make me be sure to get it right and
: waterTIGHT (-:

Actually and somewhat surpising is kraft paper honeycomb is a fairly popular material even for marine applications. Most of it is coated kraft paper, but still it's paper.

Bill H.

Messages In This Thread

Material: Cardboard surfboard- very interesting *PIC*
Malcolm Schweizer -- 11/12/2009, 10:31 pm
Re: Material: Cardboard surfboard- very interestin
Bill Hamm -- 11/13/2009, 11:43 am
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Malcolm Schweizer -- 11/13/2009, 1:11 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 11/13/2009, 3:56 pm
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Reg_B -- 11/13/2009, 9:26 pm
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Malcolm Schweizer -- 11/14/2009, 3:31 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 11/15/2009, 12:34 am
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Reg_B -- 11/15/2009, 7:03 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 11/16/2009, 12:28 am
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Reg_B -- 11/16/2009, 10:27 am
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Bill Hamm -- 11/17/2009, 1:03 am
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Greg H -- 11/18/2009, 11:57 am
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Bill Hamm -- 11/19/2009, 1:55 am
Re: Material: Cardboard surfboard- very interestin
Bill Hamm -- 11/13/2009, 11:11 pm