I need to make a cowl for an RC aircraft that is relatively small and light.  On one site they advise 6 oz or even 4 oz Glass fibre cloth.  What would be a suitable carbon cloth for this job?

Hi,

6oz is 170g, 4oz is 113g. If you did want to use glass then we have a 100g Woven Glass Fabric and also a 160g Woven Glass Fabric. In carbon fibre you would find that you don't need as much carbon (weight for weight) as you would glass so our 90g Plain Weave Carbon Fibre would have the strength of the 113g glass (probably quite a bit more strength). If you wanted something a little thicker then we've just taken delivery of some 120g Plain Weave Carbon Fibre that we'll be adding to the Wholesale/Offers part of the site. I haven't worked out pricing for this material yet but as you'd expect from this part of the site it will be heavily discounted.

I hope this helps, Matt

Matt Statham
Easy Composites / Carbon Mods - Technical Sales