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[Warren Greenway <opensourcesub@yahoo.com>]

Look up Nituff. They can impregnate anodized surfaces
with Teflon. The surface is extremely hard (will
destroy carbide cutters), very slick, and can be
protect the aluminum better then anything I have ever
heard of. 

Warren.

--- Michael B Holt <tlohm@juno.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 11:52:21 -0500 "dino snider" 
> writes:
> >
> >Re: hull coatings - curious if worth use of teflon
> coating. Would 
> >reduce operating costs, and increase speed
> slightly.
> 
> How does one coat anything with Teflon?   I don't
> know anything
> about it.   Ignoring the speed thing, Teflon would
> certainly limit the 
> problem of plant growth on the hull.
> 
> As far as speed goes ... I have a report here that
> what works best
> is to put longitudinal grooves in the hull.   The
> improvement is so
> small that it takes a lot of power to make the
> machining worth the
> trouble and the cost. 
> 
> 
> Mike Holt
> 
> 
>
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