Rick, I’m in the middle of this project on my boat. I went with Wally’s suggestion and used “foamed pvc sheet”. Flex seems to be similar to the luan ply. Look at the headliner part of wally’s page. I’m putting it up with no painting or finish and it looks really nice. Very easy to work with, rough cut it with a jigsaw and finish cut with a router/laminate trimming bit using the old panels as a pattern. Easy to do and came out perfect. The only hard part to the job is removing the old adhesive that the velcro left on the fiberglass liner. I still haven’t found a solvent that will disolve it and have resorted to sanding it off. I got the material in 4’x8’ sheets from Piedmont Plastics in Raleigh for $35 a sheet. 3 sheets to replace all of it with a half a sheet left over. Not done yet, but I think that I am going to be very happy with the results... James Taylor Delaney C&C 38 Oriental, NC
From: Rick Brass via CnC-List Sent: Friday, February 19, 2016 9:55 PM To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Cc: Rick Brass Subject: Re: Stus-List Thin plastic sheet for headliner access and other uses Dennis; Have you only used it for flat panels like those under your winch mounts? You mention “stiff” in your description. I’m looking for a somewhat flexible material that can be used to replace the original Naugahyde covered luan panels in the headliner of my 38. These panels all seem to have a slight curvature to them. So I’m wondering if this might be a suitable material for the replacement panels? Rick Brass Washington, NC From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Dennis C. via CnC-List Sent: Friday, February 19, 2016 4:05 PM To: CnClist <CnC-List@cnc-list.com> Cc: Dennis C. <capt...@gmail.com> Subject: Stus-List Thin plastic sheet for headliner access and other uses Following up on a recent thread about plastic sheet for headliner accesses and other uses on our boats. I used a material from mcmaster.com to replace the removable overhead panels which access the winch bolts on Touche'. The material is strong, stiff, easy to work, looks nice and closely matches the original panels. I've used it in several other applications as well. It is smooth on one side and has a light texture, like Naugahyde, on the other. Very nice material. Anyway, having failed to find the invoice for the stuff in Touche's file and being completely uncertain which of mcmaster's many choices it was, I sent a small sample to mcmaster for identification. They quickly responded with this: Formable Chemical-Resistant Kydex Acrylic/PVC http://www.mcmaster.com/#8650K113 Good customer service, in my opinion. They said they were returning my sample. Sheesh! It was less than 2x2 inches. They could have tossed it. I intend to order some more as I'm nearly out. Dennis C. Touche' 35-1 #83 Mandeville, LA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Email address: CnC-List@cnc-list.com To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom of page at: http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com
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