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Old 02-26-2015, 07:09 PM   #21 (permalink)
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I've been doing a lot of reading on the foamie teardrop trailers with this cheap fiberglass alternative.

Seems they are making a lightweight trailer bodies just by using blue or pink bigbox store insulation foam, then covering it in this order titebond II/drop cloth canvas/gripper primer/exterior porch paint and claiming a very strong super lightweight waterproof shell.

Might be a good alternative to chloroplast for boattails and such as you can gorilla glue the foam to your desired shape then just wrap it with the canvas.
Do you have a link? I need to build a lightweight removable boattail.

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