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Posts: 5,590 Naples, FL | Well, someone did make a bamboo composite cat from the looks of it. Wonder how much it weighs...? From bamboo surfboards hawaii website... After over 10 years of bamboo board making, I would estimate that each layer of rotary bamboo veneer is roughly as strong as one layer of 4 ounce unidirectional fiberglass. Two layers of bamboo veneer with grains crossed, epoxy laminated and vacuum bagged uses less resin than a hand laid-up 8 oz. fiberglass. On bamboo NFC surfboard decks I use as many as five layers of bamboo in high stress areas. In the fin box area, up to three layers of bamboo are used.
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#168098 02/12/09 05:54 PM 02/12/09 05:54 PM | andrewscott
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Posts: 531 Lake Murray SC | Very cool!
Renewable structural fibers? Excellent idea.
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#168120 02/12/09 11:01 PM 02/12/09 11:01 PM |
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Posts: 1,307 Asuncion, Paraguay | Bamboo is natural carbon fiber, just like wood. If you think of it, glass is recyclable. the problem (if any) would be with the resin content - but that goes for all of them.
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Posts: 493 Minnesota | Bamboo is NOT carbon fiber, it is cellulose fiber,-a long chain polysaccride. (Or nature's plastic.) It's just another way to make plywood. -But probably very good plywood.
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Posts: 12,310 South Carolina | For the record the term "renewable" is yesterday. Today's word is "sustainable".
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#168156 02/13/09 10:10 AM 02/13/09 10:10 AM | andrewscott
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Posts: 2,844 42.904444 N; 88.008586 W | Looks great, like bamboo panted fiberglass. Yes, I know it's not.
Now where's that bamboo composite Mast? GILLIGAN!!
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#168179 02/13/09 11:55 AM 02/13/09 11:55 AM |
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Posts: 5,525 | I'm really serious, I swear! 'Member those "Chinese handcuffs"? You stuck your fingers in them and when you pulled away they tightened?
So, you weave some bamboo cloth like that, saturate, slide it over a mandrel, tighten up and viola! instant mast?
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Posts: 1,200 Vancouver, BC | Bamboo is NOT carbon fiber, it is cellulose fiber,-a long chain polysaccride. (Or nature's plastic.) It's just another way to make plywood. -But probably very good plywood. Cellulose is made up of a lot of carbon :-) Unlike Glass...silicon.
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#168199 02/13/09 02:02 PM 02/13/09 02:02 PM |
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Posts: 12,310 South Carolina | I'm really serious, I swear! 'Member those "Chinese handcuffs"? You stuck your fingers in them and when you pulled away they tightened?
So, you weave some bamboo cloth like that, saturate, slide it over a mandrel, tighten up and viola! instant mast? kinda like these?: http://www.solarcomposites.com/(neat product...horrible website).
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#168208 02/13/09 03:37 PM 02/13/09 03:37 PM |
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Posts: 749 Santa Cruz, CA | So...Craig Calfee (Bamboo bike guy) is just south of me. He's a very cool cat and can be seen riding his bamboo bike around town. He's a Hobie 16 sailor. Just north of me are these guys: They make surfboards out of hemp fiber and epoxy. Due to the nautical history of hemp, and it's superior strength, I think it would be a good direction for boat building. I guess that trimaran Earthrace had some hemp fiber in the hull laminate. They didn't publicize it too much due to different rediculous drug laws around the world. If you dig out a piece of epoxy-laden hemp fiber and load it in your bong Michael Phelps style, I guarantee the hemp won't be the thing getting you high. Neat to think about anyway... J | | |
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