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Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Plywood and auto parts.
On Mon, 06 Jan 2003 20:53:47 +0100 Carsten Standfuss writes:
>
>> Was the plywood being used as a mold; that is, was the acrylic
>> being formed against the plywood?
>
> _ _ plywood ring
> ---------- acrylic sheet
> - === plywood ring with air vale
> ---------- plywood plate
That's the same method in the Markham plans. How well did
it work?
>> My project is a full-size working replica of Simon Lake's Argonaut
>> Junior. The original boat was made of two layers of pine planks.
>
>Mike .. -if- your replica should have any historic worth.. it should
>be make close to the original as possible and as information are
>available.. in this case from two layers of pine planks..
The cost of pine planks 14 feet long would be too high.
Historical worth is sometimes a matter of opinion. I want
to reproduce the functions of the original. I'm not interested
in cranking myself across the bottom by hand.
>(and for the hardliners.. only with material and tools available
>at the time of the original).
Did everyone see the Discovery Channel reconstruction of
the Drebbel boat? That's a bit hard line for me.
>They build here a sailboat from year 1230 - with a compass and a
>diesel motor.. From a research sientific-historian point you can not
really
>research history with this vessel..
In the earlly 1980s a U.S. group built a replica of a ship from the
1580s. The ship was given a diesel and the associated euqipment,
which harmed its sailing ability.
Mike H.
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It is possible to make a Ship or Boate that may goe underwater
unto the bottom, and so to come up againe at your pleasure ...
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William Bourne, 1576
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