forestcreature
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I am thinking of downsizing my large through-bolted plexiglass windows to portholes. Ready-made fiberglass sheets or panels sound like an attractive way to fill in the cutouts quickly and cleanly, but could I bond sections of sheet into the topside window cutouts as strongly as laying up laminate by hand?
I think stiffening stringers on the inside would be a good idea. Perhaps the new sheet and existing laminate could be beveled so that the sheet is applied from the outside and screwed onto stringer cores made of a strong material and extending onto the existing laminate, clamping the sheet into place in addition to any bond around the edges.
Ideas?
I think stiffening stringers on the inside would be a good idea. Perhaps the new sheet and existing laminate could be beveled so that the sheet is applied from the outside and screwed onto stringer cores made of a strong material and extending onto the existing laminate, clamping the sheet into place in addition to any bond around the edges.
Ideas?
Code:
| O|
OUTSIDE \ L| _
|\\ D||#|
| \\ ||#|
|N \\||#| INSIDE
|E \ |#|
|W ||#| screwed to
>=====|=| <- stringer core
| ||#|
...
| ||#|
| / |#|
| //| -
| // |
|// |
| |
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