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<blockquote data-quote="daschmetterling" data-source="post: 406102" data-attributes="member: 20202"><p>Thanks everyone for your comments and suggestions (and even aerospace engineer calculations!).</p><p>Originally I was trying to decide between 0.90 and 0.125 aluminum sheet- and it seems like 0.090 is the way to go there. But now we are leaning toward using aluminum diamond plate, and this comes in 0.100 or 0.080 thinknesses! More to decide! Weight is pretty negligible between the two, about 16 lbs difference in a 60" x120" sheet. But 0.01 is about $50 more expensive than 0.080. In the whole scheme of things, kind of a wash. The reason we are thinking of diamond floor plate is the traction and maintenance idea. We won't need to add traction nor paint, and we figure the aluminum will get dull and dirty pretty quickly. For work we use unpainted aluminum boats all the time, so it seems normal to us!</p><p>We can always paint it it we want or need. We are trying to build a simple, cheap, durable low maintenance fishing boat, because we will use it hard, and probably not maintain it as well as we should!</p><p></p><p>Sent from my SM-N900V using Tapatalk</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="daschmetterling, post: 406102, member: 20202"] Thanks everyone for your comments and suggestions (and even aerospace engineer calculations!). Originally I was trying to decide between 0.90 and 0.125 aluminum sheet- and it seems like 0.090 is the way to go there. But now we are leaning toward using aluminum diamond plate, and this comes in 0.100 or 0.080 thinknesses! More to decide! Weight is pretty negligible between the two, about 16 lbs difference in a 60" x120" sheet. But 0.01 is about $50 more expensive than 0.080. In the whole scheme of things, kind of a wash. The reason we are thinking of diamond floor plate is the traction and maintenance idea. We won't need to add traction nor paint, and we figure the aluminum will get dull and dirty pretty quickly. For work we use unpainted aluminum boats all the time, so it seems normal to us! We can always paint it it we want or need. We are trying to build a simple, cheap, durable low maintenance fishing boat, because we will use it hard, and probably not maintain it as well as we should! Sent from my SM-N900V using Tapatalk [/QUOTE]
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