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Re: Strip: End Blocks question
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 5/17/2011, 12:51 am
In Response To: Re: Strip: End Blocks question (Jay Babina)

: To add a little more to what Ian wrote:

: Once the deck and hull are completed, you tape them together with
: fiberglass packing tape and you tape the inside seams. You can
: avoid taping the extreme ends so you can pry them open and put
: in some thickened epoxy and then re-tape them together so the
: deck and hull and bonded well on the ends.

Hi Jay,

To avoid taping the extreme ends is why I use partial sheer strips at the ends, just epoxy the decks down to them, then tape the outside, works fine and is a heck of alot easier than trying to glass areas I can't reach.

Bill H.

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Strip: End Blocks question *PIC*
Jim Schaffer -- 5/15/2011, 8:16 pm
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Farback -- 5/15/2011, 8:28 pm
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Ian Cummins -- 5/15/2011, 9:40 pm
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Jim Schaffer -- 5/15/2011, 10:12 pm
Re: Strip: End Blocks question
Jay Babina -- 5/16/2011, 6:55 am
Re: Strip: End Blocks question
Bill Hamm -- 5/17/2011, 12:51 am
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dave g -- 5/15/2011, 11:15 pm
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Kurt Maurer -- 5/15/2011, 11:44 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 5/16/2011, 12:32 am