Subject: Re: [baidarka] Plastic SOF Ideas / Questions
From: Bob Klemick (klemick@home.com)
Date: Thu Oct 18 2001 - 19:27:57 EDT
I built one baidarka with 5/8" tubing ribs which I think was polyethylene. Got it
at HD in a continuous coil. On the first try I just set them in and let the keelsen
push them down and flatten out, but over a little bit of time they reverted to their
rounding ways. The boat is twitchy enough without that. On my second try using the
same ribs I put them in the steam box. I was really excited because it seemed to
work. I flattened them out and as they cooled they seemed to have stayed flat. But,
as time went by, a couple of days, they rounded out again, not totally though. I
decided to let it be and I skinned the boat. The boat did reasonably well, used it
for quite awhile. Since the gun'l mortises were 3/8", I just cut a small slot out of
the tubing end and forced them in. I feel that if I got the tubing hotter it would
have worked better.......... bk
Juan Ochoa wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm thinking about building this winter.
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