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Offline Homer

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Re: Anybody have any experience with fiberglass??
« Reply #15 on: July 14, 2012, 04:04:08 PM »
alright, I'll ask  -what in the hell are you making?
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Offline Frog

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Re: Anybody have any experience with fiberglass??
« Reply #16 on: July 14, 2012, 05:06:10 PM »
Call Winston Strickland.  904-343-0848
Who is that and for what exactly?

Winston is our dryer guru here, but before he was banished to the nether regions of Florida, he was part of the surf culture out here on the real coast! (That's why he is still California Dreaming!)  ;D

They are a lot lighter and weaker today, but good boards are still made the same way of hand laying fiberglass over hand shaped foam blanks the same way as since the '60's.
Foam blank makers are just harder to find.
That rug really tied the room together, did it not?

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Re: Anybody have any experience with fiberglass??
« Reply #17 on: July 14, 2012, 07:05:59 PM »
Frog,like you I've learned to do what I'm toad!
Yep, 20,000 plus surfboards, a boat here or there,submarine antena, and
unfourtunatly, maybe even a drone or two flying above.But it was surfing,
that lead me into T-shirts. I was talking with my Unoffical publistist (Sonny)
about some molds I was building for screen tanks,washout booths, etc. and
was asking his (humble) opinions.No shortage there,the guy is ALWAYS thinking.
I really know more about presses, but at my stage in life, a "guru" in anything legal,honest
will do just fine. I make some custom ovens for the composite side of fiberglass,
once in a while, and I am into that part of fiberglass,where you mold under vacume,
and heat using mostly epoxies,polyesters,vinyl esters,etc and using e-glass,s-glass,biaxials,
kevlar,carbon fiber. It blows my mind to this day how light and strong composites have
become.Maybe some one will build screen presses,using this technology some day.Frog,
 how do you upload pictures here! I am putter eliterate!
winston



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Re: Anybody have any experience with fiberglass??
« Reply #18 on: July 14, 2012, 08:35:14 PM »

how do you upload pictures here? I am puter eliterate!
winston


You start out by clicking the blue Plus sign just below. PICTURE 1


Then you follow the instructions and choose a file of one of the acceptable types that resides on your computer PICTURE2



The other way to post pics here, is to just add the internet address between the brackets that appear when you click the Image icon PICTURE 3
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That rug really tied the room together, did it not?