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Posted by dwhite
on 1/10/2008, 7:03 am, in reply to "Re: Fireball Molds"
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Hi Pete,
My e-mail address is whiteclda@yahoo.com which will get me at home. My il at school is dwhite@jmsd.org Concerning the glass boat issue we were discussing there is a guy near Vancouver named Dean Greentree who is working with a glass mold that seems promising but I don't think he is going to rent it out especially across the country. There is also a mold that the Canadians use referred to as the Blanco mold that has been used successfully in building wooden hulls and it is located on the east coast somewhere. I think getting a hold of Steph up in Canada could help determine here the mold is located. Another possibility is to contact Lifestyle boats, again in Canada and they have or had a mold which was used to produce fiberglass shells which guys like Phil Locker used to make his composite hull. I think the warning that Pat is making in his e-mail refers to the mold we outline and used at the school here. It is a male mold and if you are a skilled woodworker a shell can be made with little problems but as it is a male mold you can add material and then have to remove excess to make the boat measure in. We suggest that if you go that way to make sure that any measurement point you push to create a wide bow is only pushed by 5 mm and not push it to the max which other builders have done with less then great results.
--Previous Message--
: Hi Dave, I have a new computer and I
: lost your email address in the
: transistion. We had a meeting
: tonight and the dates of July 19-20
: for the Fireball Eastern Regionals
: is good to go with. Plus thanks for
: the information regarding the molds,
: or lack there of. For some reason I
: thought there was 1 mold available
: somewhere on the east coast.
:
: --Previous Message--
: Hi Pete,
:
: Two things, first is the dates of
: July 19-20 a confirmed date for the
: Eastern Regionals at Sayville. I
: hope they are as that is a good
: weekend for all concerned. Second,
: there is no fiberglass mold
: available in the US for what you are
: asking. We have the numbers and an
: outline of how to build a wide bow
: from wood which I can supply but if
: you are talking about making a glass
: boat you would have to first make a
: wooden hull then use that to pull a
: glass mold from. It would not be
: worth it for one or two boats.
: During my conversations with the
: Winder Boat company they suggested
: that we begin to make foam sandwich
: hull by using the mold we use to
: make a wooden hull but reduce the
: sizes of the hull section patterns
: and build the hull from the foam
: board used in glass construtuon.
: then glass over the foam. Then
: remove the shell and glass the
: inside of the foam then build wooden
: centerboard case and tanksides and
: insert to make a composite hull.
: They said this is the way they began
: to make glass hulls before they
: tooled up an entire mold for a glass
: boat. That's about all we can
: suggest at this time. Let me know
: about those dates as soon as
: possible as I have already told some
: people that those dates were ok and
: if I have to I will make adjustments
: and corrections. Talk to you later.
:
: --Previous Message--
: Hi Dave,
: It's Pete from Long Island. I have
: access to a shop that use to make
: fiberglass boats and the owner is
: considering a project or 2 in
: fiberglass or kevlar. Actually, I
: have my boat there now and I will be
: re-doing the bottom of it since it
: is too thin as we discoved during
: the nationals.
:
: --Previous Message--
: Where are you located and what type
: of
: boat, wood or are you going to try
: to build one from glass. Will help
: with whatever we can do
:
: --Previous Message--
: Does anyone know if there is a Wide
: Bow mold in the US that can be
: borrowed/rented/leased for the
: possible build of 1 or 2 boats?
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