Next time somebody makes a trip to the scrappy (Auto recycler), see if a Kia Sportage is around.. I looked at one in the parking lot, it seems to have alot...
Hi all, I am in the process of updating my website to include a new product. I'm now selling genuine carbon firbre airboxes, the type used on twin 40s and...
List A question for all you people: I see carbon fiber parts used in all kinds of applications: Bicycle frames, race car brake discs, bicycle wheel rims, and...
Hi Tom, What woul du like to know about moulding carbon? I design carbon parts everyday and really there is nothing to it when you have a little experience. ...
As far as production bicycles go, Kestrel uses female tooling and internal bladders to compact the laminate. Most other bicycles are bonded together from...
Hi all, This coming weekend I get to finally to enjoy my birthday present :-). As the wife bought me tickets to this years GP. I'm going up on a coach, so no...
In a message dated 7/3/2002 6:50:55 AM Pacific Daylight Time, ... Tom - You can use carbon fiber pretty much the same way you use other FRP materials. You can...
Guys, I know cheap or free CAD gets discussed often so I thought this might be of interest: http://www.askoh.com/ I haven't checked it out myself as I'm...
busy day----getting married at eight this morning, we've been together for eighteen years-'bout time. next week I start radiation and chemo for brain...
Wow is right Ken! Congrats on the hitch-up and good luck with the therapy. We all want to see that car. The second one! and the third and the fourth.... :-) ...
Ken Congratulation on the marriage! If you work at it it may just last! :>) Best of everything to your in your therapy! Looking forward to many more ...
This may be a duplicate post, but if I remember correctly Tom Hale was asking about carbon fiber technique and I don't remember seeing him in the LocostNA ...
I have the following for sale for 2.0 Ford Zetec Engine 95-97: 1 - used clockwise waterpump in excellent shape Cost new $70.00 1- Brand new multi groove...
List Thank you all for your responses about how to make the molds for complicated carbon fiber parts. I think I now know how to approach the problem. This...
... Joćo, This model is limited to the western hemisphere. An American "midsize" (about 3500lbs.), this line replaced the RWD Fairlane/Fairmont line in the...
I saw a demo of an FAA approved wet lay-up structural composite repair. To get the right resin ratio, they: put the dry fabric on a sheet of plastic; measure...
From: Tom Hale snip# ... compressor like has been published several places, or is it better to just buy a vacuum pump from Aircraft Spruce? ... Hi Tom, I would...
Hey John. Didn't you once make a vacuum pump from a refrigerator compressor. Do you have any thoughts on whether it's an appropriate approach for vacuum ...
Just saw how confusing my earlier post looked. I included the email address of a friend who once made a vacuum pump from a refer compressor. He's a retired...
... Interesting idea. You could make up a bunch of plies this way and keep them in a freezer for a while to keep them from setting. Another thing that might be...
Answer from my friend John, about the vacuum pump. Didn't have anything to say about using it for vacuum bagging. -JH I still have, and use that vacuum pump....
... Friskers makes a paper cutter that uses a rotating wheel on a 11" guide bar to do the cutting. The bar pins the paper down while cutting. Had to make some ...
Good idea. My wife used our paper cutter to cut ashfault roof shingles when we re-roofed the house. Surprisingly enough, it cleaned up and I still use it for...
many many thanks for kind comments----greatly appreciated. definately have a long term attitude-could not have been a racer for as long as I was without it the...
As a catering/refigeration enginner in a previous life. A lot of domestic ovens have a fan heater combined as do commercial ones, The bearings have very little...
Jason Thank you for the detailed, nitty-gritty advice. You are talking exactly at the level at which I am with this project. I will be riding a 200 mile...
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Tom, Another source for a vac pump......................the ones commercially available for evacuating automotive aircon systems prior to a regas. no idea on...
