• @[email protected]
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    154 months ago

    Fiberglass may be overkill, but you would absolutely need some kind of sealing lacquer around the entire print or it will definitely fill with water.

    • @Tyfud
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      84 months ago

      Honestly, some two part epoxy smoothed around it and you’d be gtg. And getting high off the fumes it gives off for the next three years…

    • FuglyDuck
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      44 months ago

      Alternatively, build a siphoning drain tube so your movement over the surface sucks the water out as you go.

      Then you just have to not stop paddling.

    • @scutiger
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      44 months ago

      The 3d gloop mentioned in the video is a solvent that’s used for welding PLA. You could definitely use that to properly seal it. And being built from blocks like in the video (which is due to a limitation of the size of a 3d printer) means that any leak would probably be limited to a single block at a time and probably not catastrophic.

      • @[email protected]
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        14 months ago

        I suppose that would work too, just solvent and then smear the outer walls of the boat. PLA is not exactly water safe though and will break down/become mechanically weak with long enough exposure. So it would be better to ideally seal the plastic entirely with a laquer