Re: [baidarka] Water Cured AU

Philip Wylie (pjwylie@planet.eon.net)
Mon, 25 May 1998 23:17:34 -0600

Date: 	Mon, 25 May 1998 23:17:34 -0600
From: Philip Wylie <pjwylie@planet.eon.net>
To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
Subject: Re: [baidarka] Water Cured AU

Bill,

The company that sells the 330/420 Aliphetic Urethane is:
Smith & Company
5100 Channel Avenue
Richmond, CA 94804
(510) 237-6842

Sorry, but that is all that I can find out about them at this time.

Cheers,

Philip

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Bill Low wrote:

> Brian
>
> As most know I have been a proponent of AU for quite a while. I have been
> using UA-75 with very good results. I was very interested in your comment
> that you though 330/420 was superior to UA-75. Could you expand on your
> comments. How was it better, color, abrasion resitance and so forth. Also
> where do you get it and what is the shelf life and cost. Is it as nasty as
> UA-75 to life and limb. How do you protect yourself from the fumes and
> toxicity. Because I have used it a lot and plan on doing so in the future I
> am always interested in how others deal with it.
>
> Any comments would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Bill Low
>
> ----------
> > From: Brian McDaniel <bjm@earthlink.net>
> > To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
> > Subject: Re: [baidarka] Water Cured AU
> > Date: Monday, May 25, 1998 12:57 PM
> >
> > Howdy.
> > I throw in my two cents from time to time, this time to support AU as
> > the coating of choice. So far, I have successfully treated both 14 oz &
> > 10.5 oz nylon with AU. The 14 oz was treated with Smith & Co
> > (510-237-6842) 330/420 AU. The 10 oz was treated with Gacoflex UA-75
> > product. The coatings have been subject to several years of abraison;
> > washing across reefs (aggressive enough to tear copper-strip skid from
> > the hull below the bow stem bulkhead), being thrown and ground against
> > walls of barnacles and mussells in rock gardens and numerous rocky beach
> > medium-surf landings. The 330/420 product is superior to the UA-75 by
> > every observation. Both are, by my observation, superior to
> > hypalon/neoprene coatings. A note on U.V. degradation: after three
> > years of full exposure to the sunlight, of the three coatings in my
> > backyard only the 330/420 shows no effects.
> >
> > TUFLEX sounds interesting...
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Brian