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Re: Another way

Posted By: Capt Patrick McCrary
Date: Sunday, 2 October 2005, at 7:17 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Another way (ken ching)

Ken,

Good thought!

But glassing the inside of the hose would be a bit bitchy & leave a rough interior to the fiberglass tube. Using your idea, but making a thick plug with wood, (the oval shape and dimensions to correspond to the rubber hose), and insert it into the end of the hose. Then fiberglass from the outside.

You'd also need a round plug at the other end to keep that shape true. Wrap the hose with a couple of layers of Seran Wrap & grease it lightly with Vasilene to act as a mold release.

In starting the layup, do only a nice wet skin coat of 1 1/2 oz mat & let it completely cure. Then finish the rest of the layup in one shot to a thickness of about 3/16".

Remove the plugs & then slide the hose out from the oval end. Would certainly require using a smooth, non-wire reinforced, hose. Probably a section of silicon hose, but that could be used for the actual hook-up of the exhaust.

The final step would be to glass in a step down at the round end to come back to the correct hose diameter. A standard fiberglass exhaust tube fitted would do that trick.

Br,

Patrick

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Capt Patrick McCrary -- Saturday, 1 October 2005, at 10:38 p.m.

Re: Exhaust Tubing
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Re: Exhaust Tubing
phil -- Sunday, 2 October 2005, at 7:08 a.m.

Re: Exhaust Tubing
Capt Patrick McCrary -- Sunday, 2 October 2005, at 7:43 a.m.

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Capt Patrick McCrary -- Sunday, 2 October 2005, at 7:49 a.m.

Re: Another way
bruce -- Sunday, 2 October 2005, at 1:37 p.m.

Re: Another way
ken ching -- Sunday, 2 October 2005, at 3:54 p.m.

Re: Another way
Capt Patrick McCrary -- Sunday, 2 October 2005, at 7:17 p.m.

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Re: Graphically
Capt Patrick McCrary -- Sunday, 2 October 2005, at 9:55 p.m.

Re: Graphically
phil -- Sunday, 2 October 2005, at 10:15 p.m.

Re: Exhaust Tubing
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Capt Patrick McCrary -- Sunday, 2 October 2005, at 8:29 a.m.