Subject: Re: [baidarka] Real skin skin boats
From: Peter Chopelas (pac@premier1.net)
Date: Mon Jul 22 2002 - 21:09:22 EDT
> I just read an article in High Performance Composites magazine about a
> couple of guys at KSU who have figured out how to impregnate leather with
> various polymers (epoxy, vinylester, urethane, etc) and are gearing up to
> manufacture it as a low cost FRP substitute...
It is difficult to imagine that leather would be less expensive than
fiberglass. And what about rot? ISTM that leather would feed a whole host
of bacteria and other microbs.
Peter
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