From: Patrick Pierquet <ppierquet@teltech.com>
To: "'baidarka@lists.intelenet.net'" <baidarka@lists.intelenet.net>
Subject: RE: [baidarka] Shrinking Dyson's 11.5 oz nylon - suggestions??
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 07:13:52 -0500
Hey, thanks for the info, Chris! Did you spray the skin with water
before ironing it? Also, do you remember what material you used for the
coating?.....the Wooden Boat article said it was some sort of
epoxy/urethane that dried in one day.
- Patrick
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Kohut [SMTP:chriskayak@earthlink.net]
> Sent: Monday, July 27, 1998 6:34 PM
> To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
> Subject: Re: [baidarka] Shrinking Dyson's 11.5 oz nylon -
> suggestions??
>
> Pat: For what its worth, I made a boat with Bruce Lemon this
> April.
> Although the weight of nylon that we used for the moment escapes me,
> the
> shrinking process involved a common household iron set on linen. With
> one
> of us on either side we kept the irons moving, albeit slowly, and
> shrinkage
> was noticeable but not particularly dramatic. The coating that was
> applied
> further shrunk the nylon, and now is snare-drum tight. Hope this
> helps.
> Chris
>
>
> > Has anyone made a skin boat using Dyson's 11.5 oz nylon twill
> material,
> > and can you offer any suggestions for shrinking the material prior
> to
> > applying Hypalon? I finished attaching the skin this weekend to my
> "Rob
> > Roy" kayak, and am ready to shrink it. The techniques I've read
> about
> > seem to conflict with one another....some say to just spray the skin
> > with water, then let it dry. In the recent Wooden Boat article
> about
> > Lemon's kayaks, it was stated that the skin was ironed to shrink it.
> > What's the appropriate way to shrink this 11.5 oz skin...any ideas?
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> > - Patrick Pierquet
> > ppierquet@teltech.com
>
>