Set the stern of the boat on a sawhorse or other suitable waist-high workbench. Pour boiling water into your front hatch and reshape the plastic when it heats and softens. If you need to push from the inside, push with a 2x4 or broom handle from the inside, or pour the water out quickly and push out the dings (with a pair of leather gloves on)--if you can reach the bow from your forward hatch! It may take several applications of boiling water (boil water, dump in, pour out, dump fresh boiling in, pour in, dump out) before the plastic softens enough to be shapable. I've also heard of people using a hot iron through a towel to heat whitewater boats to change their shape. I'm not sure if this would work for a double-layer boat, but for any other HDPE boat, it oughta work. Shawn >Does anyone know how to put the tip of a plastic boat's bow back >into shape? > >thanks! >- Julio _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed May 26 1999 - 12:44:52 PDT
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