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I just saw this on the net... is it true?
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Marine grade ply uses the SAME glue as construction EXTERIOR ply you can buy at home depot.
Marine grade ply was designed for ONE thing: BENDING
Marine grade ply has solid interior cores, so when you bend the board - like making the bend in the guhwhal around to the stem, or making a reverse curve to the chime from the keel on the bottom of the boat - the solid cores keep the sheet from cracking. If the inner cores have a void, when you bend it, the void will close and begin to crack the inner core.
If you are NOT using the ply to BEND, then do not buy Marine grade. Buy a sheet of ACX from ANY Home Depot type place. It has an "A" side - very pretty, and will make your transom, bulkhead, floor - anything FLAT.
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Messages In This Thread
- Marine grade Plywood?
- True. I worked in the plywood machinery business for years.
- Bend plywood???
- No, most US plywood is junk, good for houses only.
- Home Depot? or Lowes?
- Either one, but HD is worse. I buy at a REAL lumber yard, and last I bought, was actually cheaper
- Music to my ears. My main supplier started his business the year I was born, and he still works there every day.
- Sad that the big box stores have replaced real hardware stores...
- Have to say this though. I was in Lowe's a few weeks ago, and found plywood
- Small world.
- I'm surprised . . . but pleased to hear that
- In Rockland Maine-the Pine Tree State, Home Depot sells wood pellets imported from Georgia. ???
- In Rockland Maine-the Pine Tree State, Home Depot sells wood pellets imported from Georgia. ???
- Local hardware stores are it!
- Do you realize what you just wrote?
- Home Depot? or Lowes?
