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Subject: CF tubes off topic was Re: [OM] Looking for tripod advice
From: Acer Victoria <siddim01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 14:49:09 -0700 (PDT)
On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, W. J. Liles wrote:

: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?
:
: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

A-HA! So that's where the acid came in :-) I couldn't remember exactly
what it was used for.

/Acer "steppenwolf" Victoria
--
"Step by step / Easy and slow / On the stairway to heaven / What a way to
go / ... "                                              --Def Leppard


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