All the technology of the US military… and good old fashioned wood comes out on top. WTF eh?
The last splitter I constructed laid fiberglass over a balsa wood core. It was supposed to be far superior to the solid birch splitters I had used in the past. The FRP/Balsa splitter cost me about $200 and 8 hours of time to make… and came out a couple pounds heavier, and no stiffer than pure wood as far as I could tell. Maybe it would have held to up hard hits better… or maybe it would have blown up even more catastrophically. Either way it was a total failure.
As far as cost, weight, stiffness, availability and ease of fabrication there is nothing better, but everyone I know turns their nose up at the thought of wood on the front of a car… and that’s why I’m still playing with other stuff.
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Not gonna lie: I want a Morgan.
http://www.speedhunters.com/2014/10/making-morgan-wood/
I don’t want a Morgan… or at least, I don’t want to pay for one. Make one maybe… I’ve been talking for three years about making the girls a kart. I should probably use birch… the thought of paying for steel, or eating steel dust always deters me when I get out to the shop.
Steel dust or saw dust?
Welding is superior to screws/glue
But I would say wood splitter all the way, especially without the facilities to do dry carbon vacuum bagged and oven cured.
Cost is always considered, my duckbill spoiler is metal, because it’s super low to the ground, and I jump my car lots. A fibre glass spoiler would explode, the metal one just bends, and I bend it back.
Didn’t old f1 cars use 2×4’s that basically sat on the ground at full downforce to keep the actual carbon tub off the ground?
Good enough for f1 good enough for me
I will defend driftwood until I die. Let the haters hate
Just call it an “organic carbon fibre composite”.
You guys make fun of driftwood to my face and then come here and praise it…