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DaveLott
PostPosted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 5:09 pm 
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My son asked me to build this for him for Christmas. Afterall, it is another cold mold project. I can do this. I know I can. I know I can........ Can I :?: :?: :?: :?: :?:

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"My 28-foot wooden circular mahogany slide took more than 15 months to build. The slide was formed with a cold-molding technique that used two kinds of mahogany, 30 gallons of epoxy, and 40,000 staples, 36,000 of which were removed after the epoxy dried. Once the slide was installed in my home, spiraling stairs were built around it so that they were “married” to its curvature," explains inventor Scott A. Jones.

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psychobilly
PostPosted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 5:41 pm 
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those grandbabies will love ya for it!!!!! 30 gallons huh.... sounds like you should just buy a 55 gallon drum of epoxy and then you would have 20 gallons left over.... A good reason to start your next boat when you complete the slide!!!!!!!!!!!!! :twisted:
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I like the way you think psycho!

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Genius, what a fantastic idea, then to make it so classy looking, amazing.

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Bill Edmundson
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Thanks GOD! Lauren didn't like it.

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PostPosted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 12:15 am 
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Can I have a go, please,please,please. :D

Have you any more photos of the build.

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I bet it'd be a real B--ch if you missed pulling a staple or two!!!! :shock: :? :roll: :wink: :lol: :lol:

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fergal butler wrote:
Can I have a go, please,please,please. :D

Have you any more photos of the build.



Fergal- knock yourself out. But that is all the photos my architect son sent me. Looks like a build as you go project.

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leakcheck
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I bet with your practice you can make it much smoother than that...obviously that builder never built a Glen-L !!!

I built one of those once out of corregated aluminum pipe....kinda like moguls on your butt..didn't even bother getting a patent on it ! :roll:

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Alonzo
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Looking really nice....
Thanks for sharing this.I like this one.

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DaveLott
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leakcheck wrote:
I bet with your practice you can make it much smoother than that...obviously that builder never built a Glen-L !!!





Bet we could make it with a little more gloss :roll:

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