Another alternative for foam.
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Topic: Another alternative for foam.
Posted By: uk1979
Subject: Another alternative for foam.
Date Posted: October-03-2010 at 10:45am
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Ran across this company, they make all types of plastic balls in different sizes, the PVC ones look good you could use something around 11/4 mixed with 1/2 inch.
If you use them you would need to do a ply floor over them. May worth a call to see how much the cost is and check the balls have no manufacturing holes in them. If it worked it would be fair to say you and your boat got "balls" 
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Posted By: uk1979
Date Posted: October-04-2010 at 4:45pm
Just had a mail back from the ball guys, good news no manufacturing holes, bad news is all there balls are solid so would sink like a stone 
Oh well the search continues, ------------- Lets have a go 56 Starflite 77 SN 78 SN 80 BFN |
Posted By: kytom2
Date Posted: October-04-2010 at 5:24pm
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Ping Pong balls! ------------- |
Posted By: 8122pbrainard
Date Posted: October-04-2010 at 7:21pm
Not really!! They are made of a celluloid thermoplastic that is hydrophilic and rapidly loses strength when wet. ------------- /diaries/details.asp?ID=1622" rel="nofollow - 54 Atom /diaries/details.asp?ID=2179" rel="nofollow - 77 Tique 64 X55 Dunphy Keep it original, Pete < |
kytom2 wrote:Posted By: uk1979
Date Posted: October-04-2010 at 10:09pm
Tom like your thinking but Pete's right ping pong need to be kept dry or will degrade over time, there always empty pop bottles, but if we could find a cheep air filled PVC ball or something it may well work, must be something out there. Roger. ------------- Lets have a go 56 Starflite 77 SN 78 SN 80 BFN |