Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19980521034615.006a4220@tscnet.com>
Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 20:46:15 -0700
To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
From: stephen <syahn@tscnet.com>
Subject: Re: [baidarka] urethane coatings
What do you mean by AU. What's that?
At 08:13 AM 5/20/98 -0400, you wrote:
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>Subject: [Fwd: [baidarka] urethane coatings]
>From: "Honel, Martin" <honelmar@unimail.unicous.com>
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>Here's my question for Baidarka Society and friends:
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>I plan to cover a kayak with polyester fabric and urethane. I
>understand that billow@capecod.net recommends a coat of AU over the
>urethane to produce an abrasion resistant shell on the boat. However he
>also cautions at length about the highly toxic nature of AU. I'd like
>to either just use the urethane or coat the urethane with some other
>product that would give it some abrasion resistence. Perhaps mixing a
>pigment and/or calcium carbonate with urethane. Or maybe just use
>ordinary enamel paint as a topcoat?
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>Is urethane alone a satisfactory solution? billow mentioned that some
>time back he was using urethane alone on nylon and that the nylon
>absorbed water.
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