A bit of progress since the last entry. The cockpit has as much glass on it now as we had. I was a bit slow in getting more cloth in, but we should have it this week.
While I was waiting, I made custom carbon fiber chain plate covers. I just used the boat itself, a bit of cardboard, plastic film and release compound and molded them using two layers of 9 oz. uni carbon cloth, oriented 90 degrees from each other. The trimmed to close final size piece ended up at 1.5 ounces. The alternative to carbon that were available to me at the shop worked out to be Aluminum at 3.75 ounce and Stainless at 15 ounces each. And, frankly, this way was also a lot easier!
Running out of material may have been a mixed blessing as we ended up with a gaggle of cages to build!
0 comments:
Post a Comment