Kamikuza wrote:bay surfer wrote:Made wood composite wings, 4 layers of 3mm birch ply, 3 layers of biaxial glass, bent/pressed up on a wood jig for Anhedral. Routered out wing profile on another jig, Cut shape sanded, then Vacuumed layered some carbon up on the outside using a small vacuum bag.
Made three sets in like 5 hrs work. I've played with the wings hard slamming into sand, rocks other than a scratch still going strong. I'll throw some pixs up later.
This interests me . . . is the glassing work beyond a complete novice?
No, it's not.
The thing to remember is that wood might 'work', expand, etc, hence a pro's are using an odd number of wood pieces, with grain placed opposite or similar. You get the idea.
But, sanding carbon is no good for electrical devices, and sanding glass for humans, I would rather sand as less as I can.
Carbon is about 0.2mm thick, so 5 layers is about 1mm, each side 2mm, thinking 6mm wood thickness might be ok. Drop the glass, go carbon only.
Total price might be about $20-40 per wing....Alu mast paid $100 (same as the above one), hence all done for 150.