[Public-list] Cockpit coamings.

[George Dinwiddie]

edward schroeder wrote:
> I might add, if you are going with the gasket material instead of the
> "peel and stick" material that someone else was describing today. The
> sponge gasketing might be made of foamed-neoprene,
> foamed-polyethylene or some other foamed-plastic material. The
> important fact is that it comes either closed-cell or open-cell.
> Open-cell material will pass air AND water; one doesn't want that.
> Use the closed-cell! Try to blow a breath of air thru it. If you can,
> don't use it.

Good point, but the neoprene industrial gasket material I used is not a 
foam at all.  It's a solid sheet of neoprene.  The stuff we got had 
pressure sensitive adhesive on one side, which made it easier to put in 
place, but isn't really necessary.

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