Fiberglass
items of interest is a page of interesting links to do with all sorts
of great stuff
with what people do with fiberglass or
some of the many uses it gets used for, even it is minute (small).
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Boats :
Building a Westsail 42 Sailboat, From a Bare
Hull: Lifting the Deck
By rj
With this project, I find myself simply sitting in the boat
and thinking. Sometimes a good ten or fifteen minutes will
pass before I realize it. This "lifting the deck"
problem has been no different. I have to build some
sort of platform to support the jacks ...
http://westsail42.blogspot.com/
Wooden Boat Builder - Blazing Barracuda
The decks were cut from Philippine mahogany-faced plywood.
The stem and frame members were precut, machined
and preassembled from solid Philippine mahogany. The shipping
crate doubled as a building jig to assist in the assembly.
... As demand for the kits diminished, some manufacturers
turned to fiberglass production, both in kit form
and fully assembled boats.
Chris-Craft merged its Boat Kit
Division with its Cavalier Boat Division,
which had been
producing ...
Wooden Boat Builder -
http://woodenboatbuilder.multiply.com/
Cars :
AmericanHeritage.com / The Fiberglass Story
He
then used it for personal family transportation until 1951, ... which
showed a glimmer of the Jaguar XK 120's styling, were dubbed the
Glasspar G2. ...
www.americanheritage.com/articles/.../it/.../2007_4_8.shtml
Kit
Car List - Kitcar & Replica Manufacturers, Builders &
Kit Car List of manufacturers, importers, distributors
& builders links of replica ...
kit trucks that fit on all ’80-90 four-door full-size GM
cars, ...
http://www.kitcarlist.com/
Suede and Chrome: Indy Autorama Post #6
By Scruffy
My two-year old son thought his little pull car was pretty
kool. If a guy had a fiberglass body, this think
would be pretty easy to make. I took several pictures of this
flat blue pickup truck at the Road Rocket Rumble last summer.
...
Suede and Chrome -
http://suedeandchrome.blogspot.com/
Ed Almquist, motorhead inventor
and pioneer
Times Herald-Record - Middletown,NY,USA
In 1955, he bought Clearfield Plastics, an early manufacturer
of fiberglass kit cars. In the years to follow, he
produced a number of Almquist kits to fit ...
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090302/LIFE02/903020301
Fish :
TagTooga : outdoors / taxidermy fish
... life like skin or fibreglass mounts in live action 3 pose
at exceptional rates ... Fish Taxidermy by McGinniy's Marine
Art...Trophy Fish Reproductions So Real .... the Pierce
Brothers travel the world, casting molds to provide you -
ou...
http://www.tagtooga.com/outdoors/taxidermy+fish
Marine :
Archaeology News - Sunken Ships of Pisa
& A Cache of Vintage Ships
Create a New Account .... The boat has been excavated, and
the Turin-based conservation firm Icnos has covered
the surviving part of the hull with sheets of
plastic and encased it in a hard, form-fitting
fiberglass shell. ...
Archaeology News -
http://archaeologynews.multiply.com/
Space :
INSIGHT: Chemicals industry marks role in Moon landingCIS (subscription) - London,England,UK
The
astronauts' space suits in 1969 were largely made from fibre glass and
... Its products underpin the exploration of new worlds and the
breaching of new ...
http://www.icis.com/Articles/2009/07/20/9233448/INSIGHT-Chemicals-
industry-marks-role-in-Moon-landing.html
NASA - NASA Dryden Fact Sheets - X-38...
materials such as fiberglass and graphite epoxy, and strengthened with
steel and ... be similar to materials used on the space shuttles, but
much more durable ...
www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/news/FactSheets/FS-038-DFRC.html