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Message #08409
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: "adam-m" robotbreeder@telus.net
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 14:27:34 -0800
Subject: [alt-beam] Carbon fiber
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Bot frame tip:
I picked up some carbon fiber rods from a local kite store. They had all
different sizes, i got their thinnest (about 1mm) and one about 2.5mm.
Wow! Extremely strong, very light, and neat flexible properties on the thin
stuff (great rear suspension on a trailing wheel). It makes for very strong
light frames.
You can superglue it, or get that copper sticky tape from stained glass
supply places (which is dynamite for other things too..). A little wrap of
the copper tape on the ends and you can solder joints together.
The Carbon fiber is slightly conductive - which i found out annoyingly after
wrapping some transistor pins around it wondering why nothing worked - so
keep electricals non contact.
The rods were very inexpensive. I spent $6 CAD on the 2 1mm and 1 2.5mm.
Try it, great stuff.
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