SailingEcosse
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Speaking to a guy in the boat yard at the weekend who told me a story about an osmosis specialist from years ago, who would go over a hull with a high powered multi head blow torch
to dry it out and burn off the acid/salt/styrene/glycol etc, buried in the laminate.
It seemed a bit extreme to me, although I could see why it might work i.e. localised high temperatures, able to vapourise moisture, styrene etc, but because it is concentrated in small areas for short periods of time, it doesn't damage the laminate (beyond the odd scorch mark of course
)
So I'm just wondering if anyone else has seen this done first hand and whether it is a valid way to dry a hull, or whether it is something that was tried back in the day and either didn't actually work, or possibly did work but was maybe regarded as too dangerous (images of hulls burnt to crisp
) to continue with?
Or is it just an old boatyard story with no or little basis in reality?
It seemed a bit extreme to me, although I could see why it might work i.e. localised high temperatures, able to vapourise moisture, styrene etc, but because it is concentrated in small areas for short periods of time, it doesn't damage the laminate (beyond the odd scorch mark of course
So I'm just wondering if anyone else has seen this done first hand and whether it is a valid way to dry a hull, or whether it is something that was tried back in the day and either didn't actually work, or possibly did work but was maybe regarded as too dangerous (images of hulls burnt to crisp
Or is it just an old boatyard story with no or little basis in reality?