I’m pretty sick and tired of fixing dings right now, so I’m wondering if something pretty much dingproof, similar to some of the ‘techie’ boards is doable for the DIY guy. I’ve made a few compsands, although they are strong there is quite a bit of issues with water intrusion, especially with balsa. Other woods I have to resaw and plane myself, I’m only able to get them down to about 3.5mm which may come out one the heavy side. It seems like supplier like Fiberglass Hawaii an other have some technical fibers now so layups similar to Dynocore and Coil may be possible. My basic idea would be to shape the lightest EPS core I can get my hands on and vacuum bag on as much glass and techie fibers as possible while keeping it at around 2.5-3.0kg. If the resin to cloth ratio is kept at 50/50, the core is 0.5kg it should be possible to get something like 25oz of cloth on both sides. I’d also like to try to get the hotcoat weight down or eliminate it completely.
Or just glass like normal using innegra and call it a day? Any suggestion or ideas?
Same stuff, but uncoated. Dig through the threads. I listed everything, where to get it and how to use it
All in the thread below. And also in the cerex thread locked down in errors and bugs. Tightly woven nylon 6,6 fabric. Comes in colors. Stronger and lighter than fiberglass. Not even a close contest to strength.
Nice Huie, but now loose the fiberglass and go nylon! If we had the money, we could get a custom weave done. Minimum order is about 1000 yards, so it keeps me limited.
NO ! nylon (even PA6.6 the more current in fact) isn’t “stronger” than fiberglass, look at mechanical numbers. But it have others properties that can be use to optimize a composit mix.
Haavard, light core thick skin allow the “stronger” durable build, but often stiff and complicated to make. if you don’t care of look, go with thick tri axial stitched glass on light eps laminate with foam epoxy (or use sphertex), you can have a “bullet proof” cheap board.
