So... what's so hard about laying up x-number layers of glass between two sheets of peel ply on a waxed or otherwise protected flat surface (glass, masonite, etc...) and making your own flat panel? Then you can tune the material to exactly the structural specs you a looking for (fiber direction(s), weight, layers).
Come on guys. [email protected] wrote: >FR4 for circuit boards is not made to be structural. I have seen a lot >of boards that are more epoxy than fiberglass. What you want in your >structural laminates is more glass and less epoxy. > > >-------- Original Message -------- >Subject: Re: KR> Anyone use FR4 for construction or repairs? >From: "Tony Wright" <[email protected]> >Date: Mon, June 25, 2012 5:22 pm >To: "KRnet" <[email protected]> > >Dave, > >I have never heard of fr4, but I have used FRP (fibreglass reinforced >plywood) in trailer repairs. think this could be used in non-structural > >uses. > >Tony > >-------------------------------------------------- >From: "Dave Acklam" <[email protected]> >Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 5:51 PM >To: "KRnet" <[email protected]> >Subject: KR> Anyone use FR4 for construction or repairs? > >> Fr4 is pre-cured fiberglass sheet made with epoxy resin..... Kind of >like >> a >> composite version of 1/16 ply..... It's available in :005in and >up.... >> >> I'm thinking of using this for some of my larger flat repairs; in >leiu of >> laying up glass (eg replacing the pilot side elevator skin)... >> >> Essentially, like an unmoulded version of prefab wingskins.... >> _______________________________________ >> Search the KRnet Archives at >http://tugantek.com/archmailv2-kr/search. >> To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to [email protected] >> please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html >> > >_______________________________________ >Search the KRnet Archives at http://tugantek.com/archmailv2-kr/search. >To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to [email protected] >please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > > >_______________________________________ >Search the KRnet Archives at http://tugantek.com/archmailv2-kr/search. >To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to [email protected] >please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html -- Matt Elder Orangeburg, SC
