Outstanding job.
1/96 THRESHER/PERMIT kit in pre-production
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DavidWho is John Galt?Comment
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Nice vid, Dave.
With regards to the chopped matt, there are two different kinds. The most common type has the strands bound with styrene, which melts down fine with polyester resins, but doesn't work with epoxy as it lacks the styrene content to emulsify with the matt. The second type is powder bound, and can be used with epoxy and polyester resins. The snag is that it tends to be more expensive and more difficult to find, plus it tends to come in more limited weights. I have limited experience working with epoxy, but have only used cloth reinforcement up until present with those resins.Comment
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Nice vid, Dave.
With regards to the chopped matt, there are two different kinds. The most common type has the strands bound with styrene, which melts down fine with polyester resins, but doesn't work with epoxy as it lacks the styrene content to emulsify with the matt. The second type is powder bound, and can be used with epoxy and polyester resins. The snag is that it tends to be more expensive and more difficult to find, plus it tends to come in more limited weights. I have limited experience working with epoxy, but have only used cloth reinforcement up until present with those resins.
And thanks for the dope on the different matt strand binders. Guess I've just been lucky with the epoxy.
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I'm glad it's found some utility. Were the shots with the camera fixed on the boat using the enclosure, or something else?Comment
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When I built those little pods, action cams were still a fairly expensive item, and choice was fairly limited. So making a case for the (relatively) inexpensive 808 made economic sense, and it also has some advantage with regard to good hydrodynamics being of streamlined form. Fast forward to present day and action cams are cheap as they come, and many are already waterproof or come bundled with watertight cases. Not streamlined, but not hard to make them so with some creative use of plasticard etc.Comment
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