Subject: Re: baidarka sticking skin
From: wayne steffens (wsteffen@mr.net)
Date: Sun Apr 09 2000 - 18:28:31 EDT
At 08:14 PM 3/28/00 PST, Robert Morris wrote:
>Wayne
>Possible options for a boundry layer to solvent based paints:
>
>PVA, a shamrock green liquid used as a mould release when I was in art
>college. It will stop plaster sticking to plaster.
>
>Mylar ribbon laid along the stringers etc.and pulled out later.
>
>Cellophane tape or ribbon (the real water soluable stuff, which may be
>disolved out when the varathane dries)
>
>For water borne varathane try oiling the frame with teak or linseed oil.
>Apply a couple of coats of paste wax only surfaces which will contact the
>skin. Rub smooth to burnish and remove excess wax (you don't want it
>clogging the weave of the cloth). This is what I do. It works. I use fletco
>diamond coat exterior polyurethane. It is a bit more elastic than the
>solvent borne stuff I used before so I add a touch more clearance between
>the skin and ribs when calculating the positions of the stringers.
Robert, are you saying that Fletco is a water-borne EXTERIOR polyurethane?
I've asked around for such a thing but have been told its a year or two
away from a reality. I havent been able to find such an animal anywhere.
wayne
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