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Re: glass over insulation board

Jerry C — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:01:35 GMT

This Duckworks article on a canoe build gives lots of methods and materials: http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/09/projects/easyb/index.htm -Jerry

Re: pelican boxes

Jerry C — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:37:38 GMT

You may want to consider building a prototype cardboard and duct tape pelican box. If you tack the cardboard pieces together with the duct tape, it will be

Re: glass over insulation board

Andres Espino — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 02:39:23 GMT

Okay some clarification is in order. Many modern hulls are fiberglass alone with no core. People commonly build glass over various types of foam. When

Re: glass over insulation board

Hajo Smulders — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 02:24:53 GMT

The reason NOT to use common household foams for something like this is the lack of compressive or sheer strength of the foams. While you could build something

Re: glass over insulation board

Andres Espino — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 02:14:27 GMT

Glass over Styrofoam is a common building method. Usually one takes thicker foam material and carves or sculpts the outer and inner curves desired. This is

Re: pelican boxes

PAT & MIKE — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 01:09:08 GMT

Try building a cardboard mockup. That way you can make the boxes a custom fit to the space. Good luck Mike Harper ... From: ronthweatt

glass over insulation board

ronthweatt — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:34:06 GMT

any one ever made a cabin for the pelican using the green Insulation Foam board and glassing over it. I Glassed a couple of scraps together it held and did not

pelican boxes

ronthweatt — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:30:58 GMT

I built a box to the size I was given and it did not fit any one have more sizes, also got my boom gallows back from the SS fab co and it is perfect now just

Re: Viewing files

sword_king — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:19:22 GMT

I don't know what to say, Roger. Yesterday I was working on an old Laptop (Dell Inspiron 1100 from about 2002) with a horribly corrupted original installation

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Re: Viewing files

Andres Espino — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:51:22 GMT

Most any program that will run under Win XP will run under Win 7 as well. Yes you have to install AbiWord or another word processing program. Open the word

Re: Viewing files

Ron — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:22:57 GMT

Rog, I don't know about windows "7", I abandoned Microsoft a long time ago. You might try starting abiword first, then opening your document from abiword. If

Re: Viewing files

Roger Dobronyi — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:04:26 GMT

I have windows "7" on this new computer because my old one crashed. They didn't include very much software. The pdf's open when I click on them now, but the

Re: Viewing files

sword_king — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:05:51 GMT

Abiword is good, a little more useful than MS's Wordpad, and nowhere near as bloated as MS Office or Open Office. If you installed it properly, you should be

Re: Viewing files

Andres Espino — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:02:11 GMT

Most word processors can read .doc files. they are the most copmmon except .txt text files. You need to copy the file down to your computer first. You