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Re: Strip: petrel progress
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 7/19/2016, 2:32 am
In Response To: Re: Strip: petrel progress *PIC* (howard)

Unless you are vacuum bagging the carbon fiber it usually will add weight, not save it. CF is VERY difficult to tell when it's wetted out, and like any laminate has no strength if it's not wetted out completely so you tend to add extra resin to make sure it's wet since you can't easily tell.

Bill H.

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Strip: petrel progress
Howard Spira -- 7/18/2016, 8:40 pm
Re: Strip: petrel progress *PIC*
howard -- 7/18/2016, 9:06 pm
Re: Strip: petrel progress
Marc Upchurch -- 7/18/2016, 11:01 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 7/19/2016, 2:32 am
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Dan Thaler -- 7/19/2016, 6:06 am
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John Messinger -- 7/19/2016, 9:20 am
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Mark N -- 7/19/2016, 9:54 am
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Etienne Muller -- 7/19/2016, 10:27 am
Re: Strip: petrel progress
Marc Donnelly -- 7/19/2016, 7:30 pm
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howard -- 7/19/2016, 11:27 pm
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Marc Donnelly -- 7/20/2016, 7:01 pm
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Paul D -- 7/22/2016, 6:14 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 7/23/2016, 11:43 pm
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Marc Donnelly -- 7/23/2016, 7:04 pm
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howard -- 7/23/2016, 9:49 pm
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Marc Donnelly -- 7/23/2016, 11:51 pm
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howard -- 7/24/2016, 7:17 am