syd wrote:
I read this thread with interest as I need to replace the skid plates on some canoes. Ordered the materials - but one problem emerged! It looks like the recommended link you gave for Jamestown Distributors for release fabric led to breather fabric, which I'm now thinking maybe isn't the same thing... (after ordering it, of course)? Do you think this using this polyester fabric blanket will still work? Was this what you meant all along?
https://www.jamestowndistributors.com/u ... her+FabricCrap. And $#%^@!
That is not what I meant, or wanted to recommend. That materials list was from a friend’s order last summer. He couldn’t find peel ply in the Jamestown on-catalog, called and after some “Don’t see peel ply” back and forth ordered what Jamestown thought sounded right.
His boats and material finally showed up in the shop last Friday. We opened the box and I wondered “What the hell is this stuff?”.
In the box was a Jamestown catalog; “peel ply” is right above Vacuum Bagging Breather fabric in page 56. Jamestown calls their peel ply “Vacuum Bagging Release Fabric” and notes in the description “A finely woven fabric treated with release agent (also known as peel ply)”
Methink the Jamestown phone reps are working off the on-line site, and having a copy of the paper catalog might help.
We did not use it; I had sufficient peel ply in the shop. I need to do a little epoxy work in the shop today and cut off some breather fabric for a hand laid, non-vacuum bagging test.
I am not expecting great things, or at least not the faint fine weave peel ply leaves behind.
My apologies to anyone who ordered breather fabric and used it. I know a couple folks who do vacuum bagging, and I think they’ll soon have a package on the way.