Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 10:41:15 -0700 (PDT)
From: Derek Berwald <derek@gordy.ucdavis.edu>
To: "Craig O'Donnell" <dadadata@friend.ly.net>
Subject: Re: One more consensus on transparency
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Message-Id: <Pine.OSF.3.95.970627102858.18793B-100000@gordy.ucdavis.edu>
Platt Monfort designs lightweight canoes with a heat-shrink dacron skin
over a kevlar-cord reinforced wood frame. I'm guessing he would pretty
much be an expert on using dacron as a boat skin. He sells 72" width
dacron fabric for $6 per yard, and from the pictures I've seen, his boats
can be finished with a beautiful translucent look to them when finished
with varnish. His boats have the skin attached with adhesive, so asking
him about sewing the fabric would be a good idea. He sells the durability
of the fabric, but I don't know how strong it really is. If someone wants
to reach him to ask him these questions, he is:
Platt Monfort
Monfort Associates
R.R. #2, Box 416
Wiscasset, ME 04578
(207) 882-5504
Disclaimer: I am as much an expert at building his geodesic canoes
as I am at building baidarkas (meaning I have never built either one
(yet)). I had gone far enough to get a set of his plans before thinking
about baidarkas, though, so I have some information in front of me.
db
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Derek Berwald
derek@primal.ucdavis.edu
On Thu, 26 Jun 1997, Craig O'Donnell wrote:
> *> Dacron (a brand of nylon). They do not have a waterproofing coating.
> *> Old airplanes have cotton or paper skin coated with aircraft dope,
> *> which is a kind of varnish.
>
> Nope, Dacron is polyester.
>
> Ultralights use a special Dacron heated to a certain point to cause it to
> tighten. For more than you ever wanted to know about ultralights, search
> for Aircraft Spruce & Specialty on the Web, read what's there, follow the
> links.
>
> Craig O'Donnell
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