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May/June 2007
Heat forming blankets; radius-cutting saw blade; cordless impact drivers; joist holder; more

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TOOL KIT Bending Composite Decking by Kim and Linda Katwijk HC 99-300 Heat Forming Kit Heatcon 800/556-1990 www.heatcon.com Street price: $3,000 I'm no stranger to bending composite deck boards by heating them. Over the last 10 years, I've tried a number of different methods, but only recently have I found one that's truly feasible. Experiments In 1997, for example, I used a 20-inch Sonotube and some space heaters to bend Trex. Unfortunately, this method was slow and imprecise; just when I thought I had it fine-tuned, I'd break another three or four boards. Next, I built what may have been

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