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Bending Longitudinals

On May 6, 2013, in Builder Blogs, Glen-L Styles, Shop Talk: Tips and Techniques, WebLetters, by Ian Reed
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Following on from the weekly newsletter where it recommended to drape wet towels overnight, I bought a 2.5m (10 ft) section of drainpipe and connected it up to my wife’s curtain steamer using some duct tape. I let it run for thirty minutes after steam was coming out of the other end and the longitudinals bent in sweetly with no risk of cracking (using Khaya Ivoriensis Mahogany).
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Ian Reed

Worked at sea on tankers and LNG carriers for many years - left as a Captain and am now working ashore in London as an Arctic Marine specialist. Have an ultralight plane which I fly when not boat building. Am in the process of building my first boat - a Glen L Monaco. I have all the framing completed and am doing the fine fairing prior to planking.

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  1. Andrew Higgs says:
    May 16, 2013 at 12:30 am

    I’ve used a similar method using a wall paper steamer linked to the drainpipe on Malaysian Kauri – it worked brilliantly. I can’t claim the applause though. I found the method on someone else’s post on the Glen-L forum pages!

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