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Originally posted by procon
best material for the job is hypalon.
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I'll see if anyone is using that at the big/national hovercraft rally in Ohio in three weeks.
For the finger/segmented skirts neoprene coated nylon woven fabric is used, heavier fabric for bag skirts or PVC. Their are common materials with the inflatable rafts, the rafts tend to use heavier materials for craft of similar size though.
None of the glues worked as well as I hoped. About 75% of them did just fine when tugged on with vigor. However I was able to easily peel them off each other. Sewing stitches and or using rivets, zippers and other mechanical fasteners is pretty typical in hovercraft skirts.
Marine Goop and rivets, covered with Lubmaster's tape will get me by until I get the design sorted out. At 99 cent a foot for a three-foot wide sheet of nylon reinforced plastic sheet I can play with attachments and skit forms all summer long.