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
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