…Sandbags are the best mobile weight I can think of.I came from a background that didn’t come with much money,so sand bagging was cheap,being it fixing a delam or holding down a blank.A double,thick plastic bag,and canvas covering worked excellent. …I tell everyone sand,but actually I have moved on to #8 lead shot,it comes in 25lbs.bags,at your local reloading gunshop. …I don’t know how much was covered in the Clark video(haven’t seen it yet)but the key secret is to leave enough room in the bag to shift the material around,so is to get maximum weight control out of the bag.A stiff bag is weight,but that’s all it is.Herb
…Sandbags are the best mobile weight I can think of.I came from a > background that didn’t come with much money,so sand bagging was > cheap,being it fixing a delam or holding down a blank.A double,thick > plastic bag,and canvas covering worked excellent.>>> …I tell everyone sand,but actually I have moved on to #8 lead shot,it > comes in 25lbs.bags,at your local reloading gunshop.>>> …I don’t know how much was covered in the Clark video(haven’t seen > it yet)but the key secret is to leave enough room in the bag to shift the > material around,so is to get maximum weight control out of the bag.A stiff > bag is weight,but that’s all it is.Herb Herb, sand is a good friend when it comes to fixing delams, I’ve cut open the delam, resined the area, put he cloth back down and covered the area with plastic, then covered with a liberal layer of sand. The weight of the sand gets into places that nothing else could.
switching to sandbag weights has been one of the best recent changes to my shaping process. i also use em to keep shaped blanks from moving around during transport. the other cool thing i’ve switched to is a new foam pad for screening. my old one was the standard one inch thick yellow stuff scored in a grid(ala jc video). a buddy made a new one using two inch thick foam, which i initally dismissed as too thick and bulky. well, when mine finally fell apart in the middle of a board i had no choice but to use the thick one and…voila’…no more problems with keeping the screen on the foam, much smoother on the rails, all over. like my old screening pad on steroids. i love it. just shows you never know till you try something yourself.
We used 25lbs bags of shot in wings when I worked for Ayres making crop dusters. used to even out the balance of the plane. I’ve seen planes fly out with over 200lbs worth of buck shot in them.
Herb, sand is a good friend when it comes to fixing delams, I’ve cut open > the delam, resined the area, put he cloth back down and covered the area > with plastic, then covered with a liberal layer of sand. The weight of the > sand gets into places that nothing else could. …I’ve been working with water bags,but they just don’t seem as easy to use as sand.I’ll keep your tip handy,Thanks,Herb.
…I’ve been working with water bags,but > they just don’t seem as easy to use as sand.I’ll keep your tip > handy,Thanks,Herb. …Handy isn’t the word for it. I was glassing a new board for myself early today (the imfamous tie-dye paint job),one of two,a 6ft.copy of my original SCfish.(paints are insane)The lams came out topnotch,then I hotcoated,and because it got so hot out here the coat frogeyed abit,and a dollar size delam appeared,deckside up on the nose,so I tapped a hole with a upolstery straight pin,and injected lam in the area.Weighted with your sand trick and BANG it’s gone,I can’t even find it,concidering it was raised 1/4" or better,Thankyou,it couldn’t have come at a better time.Herb