Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19980831230334.00668ae8@eagle.ptialaska.net>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 15:03:34 -0800
To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
From: DrDuktayp <bajabug@eagle.ptialaska.net>
Subject: Re: [baidarka] Galvanized steel conduit, Schedule 80 PVC, etc.
At 01:06 PM 8/31/98 +0000, you wrote:
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>Option #2 - I really like this option...
>Galvanized steel electrical conduit in 1/2 inch diameter costs $1.38 for
>a 10' stick! It is more rigid than aluminum tubing 6061T, and it will
>not bend to make a cool split bow like Dyson does, but it seemed to have
>enough bend to serve as great stringers, keels, gunwhales. I like Tom
>Yost's ideas of aluminum tubing with wood for spreaders, bow, stern
>pieces, so this conduit really does not need to bend more than about one
>foot or less per 10'.
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>Laurie Flood
>floodl@innercite.com
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I asked my local electrical contractor (he is a supplier too) about using
conduit. He thought it was a terrible idea and said that I would have MUCH
better results from aluminum. He recommended aluminum pipe schedule 40. It
turns out that this stuff is like 30 cents a foot. I bought a 2 inch pipe
12 foot long for my sailing dinghy it was quite a bit more (40 bucks) but I
must say it is pretty light and strong. The walls are thick enough to put a
bolt through (about 1/8 inch) and I have been enjoying the mast maintenance
free...it is totally uncoated.
You might check into this option before resorting to steel.
Good luck!
DrDuktayp
"There is nothing-absolutely nothing-half so much worth doing
as simply messing about in boats." Kenneth Grahame