Re: specs and blades

[Keeldude (at) AOL.COM]

In a message dated 8/18/99 11:53:27 AM Central Daylight Time, 
saillaser@prodigy.net writes:

<< WHEN did the class vote to allow the "NEW"
 boards that are thinner than the template, the ones that slap back and forth
 in the slot??? >>


The boards were not well controlled in the manufacturing process before about 
1982.  The 33 mm template is built to the rule which is 30 mm plus or minus 3 
mm.

The new blades are built raght at 30.  all the supplied blades since about 
boat # 100,000 have been 30 mm

the plus minus was for a builder slop tolerance.  

we do not need the tolerance for the last twenty years production

the class does not get a vote on builder quality except with our checkbooks

in my opinion a blade that exactly meets the spec for 20 yyears in a row is 
incredible.

Fred Schroth
Laser Class - North American Region