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Posted by Steph Use of Kevlar may be an over-kill in strength and expence. --Previous Message--
on 3/30/2006, 4:30 am, in reply to "Kelvar or glass tape"
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Kevlar is hard to find below 6oz. Ideally a 1.8oz would be best for this area. I sure would go for a roll of bi-axile 2" tape if it was very light weight. The issue with Kevlar is it is too stiff and will not hold a bend, you would wet it down in a hull joint but 15min. later it's lifted and forming air pockets. Also with Kevlar if you break the e-poxy coating the Kevlar will wick in water, not much but it is a slight problem. Another thing is how to sand the rough edge off. I've been sanding the outside edges of the tapes down to a fine smooth edge, it could be my quality of tapes as the threaded edge has a rough ridge after setting, sanding Kevlar would be very very hard to do by hand.
: Over the past couple of years we have
: been guided to building boats using
: the chineless construction method
: and joining the seams together with
: fiberglass tape and epoxy. Should I
: be looking at reinforcing the hull
: seams between the bottom and bilge
: panels and the top side and bilge
: panels with something stronger like
: Kelvar or is this more than
: necessary. Or would it even work.
: Is Kelvar something you use with
: fiberglass hulls only or does it
: adhere to wood as well. I it
: lighter than glass? I think these
: are questions we need to look at.
: Any response please send it along.
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