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KBBS Archive 10,000
Hollow Tube Query
Posted By: mike allen In Response To: Re: Light paddles (Shawn Baker)
Date: Tuesday, 9 November 1999, at 5:33 p.m.
> Hi Stan, Definitely do-able. Try making a hollow shaft and then covering
> it with maybe a 2 oz. layer of woven glass.> Blades could be epoxy/composite fiber or very light wood, cut very thin,
> covered with thin glass.> Look at my paddle building page: the paddles there aren't necessarily
> ultra-light, but you might get some ideas to start with.> Right now, I'm making a new form for solid composite blades, so I could
> make them as light or heavy as I want, based on how many layers of glass
> or carbon I put on them.> Shawn
Hey Shawn
Any bright ideas on how to shop make hollow carbon shafts to get really light paddles? And how to mate to a paddle end - (insert in shaft?)
Like saran wrap some rubber garden hose, tie a weight on one end and lay up. Then tie other end to car bumper stretch tight and slide off tube.
What else could you do? Would you put expanding foam inside for a core separator?
-mike
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