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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 landing
CIS (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

















































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