C-flex fiberglass planking manual

Detailed Description: 32 pages, 31 photos with many illustrations Covers ONE-OFF fiberglass boatbuilding methods, fiberglass planking, foam and balsa core, resins, fiberglass, building forms, laminating, hull reinforcement, etc. Excellent series of captioned photos on building a boat with both C-FLEX and foam core fiberglass. C-Flex. C-Flex is a unidirectional fiberglass building material originally developed for the manufacturing of custom boats. Since its invention, countless structures, marine and otherwise, of all shapes, sizes and complexity have been affordably built using this simple construction method. SAFPLANK ® is a high strength system of fiberglass planks designed to interlock to form a continuous solid surface. SAFPLANK ® is intended to replace wood, aluminum or steel planks in environments where corrosion or rotting creates costly maintenance problems or unsafe conditions. The 2" deep by 12" or 24" wide panels are available with Missing: c-flex.

I built a Paine Francis 26 with C-Flex back in the early 80's. It's a good one-off method for FG boats, but as above, finishing the surface is a big, nasty job. It is a lot like strip planking, as the material is basically a bundle of fiberglass rods (like fishing rods) woven into cloth, making a 12" wide flexible plank. The design of C-Flex allows any form to be built using simple and inexpensive framing procedures instead of costly molding methods. Each "plank" of C-Flex contains small semi-rigid rods in the longitudinal direction. These rods allow the fiberglass to hold its form while resin is applied to the cloth. has invented a fiberglass reinforcement, C-Flex® Fiberglass Planking, that has had a radical impact on "one-off" fabrication. The C-Flex® system is a unique development in glass reinforced plastic construction that may be utilized in a broad range of applications for the quick fabrication of low cost, low maintenance, custom-built structures.

Mechanical Properties-C-Flex® Fiberglass Planking. 2. Tools. 3. Polyester Resins. 4. Fiberglass Reinforcements. 5. Hull Framing Systems. The repair methods in this manual offer practical solutions to structural Edge-bonding the hull planking and coating the exterior with epoxy after. The original craft were built using wood lapstrake or carvel planking, The Fiberglass version uses C-FLEX fiberglass planking and fiberglass laminate.