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05/31/2018 03:44PM
It does not shrink like shrink tube actually . Heating it makes it easier to work with. I keep a hot air gun handy when I put it on cuz it makes it stick better, smooth out better and mold or wrap around curves better. Over the winter it stiffens up a little and pulls away from some curves......I just hit it with the hot air gun again and smooth it back out in spring.
"What could happen?"
06/01/2018 07:16AM
mjmkjun: "I have never used KeelEasy. More video of the product you are using: video The black strip looks really cool on the white kayak! "
It does look good. That is pretty expensive to do the whole length! That video says the heat gun was at 500deg. My heat gun is an old cheapy. I have no idea what temp it puts out.
Youtube is finding a bunch of videos now for me.
06/01/2018 09:48AM
I put KeelEazy on my Spirit to protect the bow stem. It started to detach on its own after two years and I removed it. Haven't put anything in it's place. Had a heat gun but it was still hard to get it to conform. A couple spots up the stem got too hot and melted a little.... This was nowhere near the spot it started to detach, which was in the spot basically under the bow paddler's feet.
Hope your experience is better than mine, but I likely won't do anything to replace it.
Hope your experience is better than mine, but I likely won't do anything to replace it.
When a man is part of his canoe, he is part of all that canoes have ever known. - Sigurd F. Olson, "The Singing Wilderness"
06/01/2018 05:50PM
mirth: "I put KeelEazy on my Spirit to protect the bow stem. It started to detach on its own after two years and I removed it. Haven't put anything in it's place. Had a heat gun but it was still hard to get it to conform. A couple spots up the stem got too hot and melted a little.... This was nowhere near the spot it started to detach, which was in the spot basically under the bow paddler's feet.
Hope your experience is better than mine, but I likely won't do anything to replace it."
The website says it might do that(detach) and you just reheat and stick it back.
06/10/2018 11:41PM
I’ve found the more often I reheat it to reposition during initial application or to re-stick it down after it pulls up the less well it stays stuck down. Hope that makes sense. Try to get it right the first time.
“We must remember that in the end nature does not belong to us, we belong to it.” - Grey Owl "Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll go canoeing" - Henry David Thoreau
06/11/2018 11:10AM
Apparently I put the KeelEasy on both the bow and stern. When I took the Spirit down this weekend to rearrange the garage I see that I still have it on the bow. It must have peeled off the stern, which makes sense that it could have caught on a rock or something.
Anyhow, still firmly in place doing it's job up front. YMMV.
Anyhow, still firmly in place doing it's job up front. YMMV.
When a man is part of his canoe, he is part of all that canoes have ever known. - Sigurd F. Olson, "The Singing Wilderness"
06/11/2018 12:24PM
mirth: "Apparently I put the KeelEasy on both the bow and stern. When I took the Spirit down this weekend to rearrange the garage I see that I still have it on the bow. It must have peeled off the stern, which makes sense that it could have caught on a rock or something.
Anyhow, still firmly in place doing it's job up front. YMMV."
I did not even think about that. Normally everybody puts it on both ends?
06/11/2018 02:06PM
Eh, it's really intended for the "high wear" parts, which on a canoe is typically the stems. I think I put it on both sides because that's how I ordered it. I just couldn't remember if I had put both sides on or if I set one kit aside to redo the bow "in the future."
When a man is part of his canoe, he is part of all that canoes have ever known. - Sigurd F. Olson, "The Singing Wilderness"
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