Acer Victoria wrote:
> :
> :> Patiently waiting for a carbon-fiber Benbo or UniLoc...
>
> What?! Roll your own CF tubes? Isn't that rather labor intensive and
> require milling and rolling machinery?
>
> /Acer "steppenwolf" Victoria
> --
>
Actually you can roll carbon fiber cloth and resin around thin aluminum
tubes and then dissolve the aluminum tube with HCl to get a nice, light,
strong CF tube. It works for making parts for a homebuilt sailplane
called the Carbon Dragon.
Jerry liles
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