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Azzaw46
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G'day guys, im needing some help with a project of mine for a friend, he's gotten me to make up a few test sets of free diving flippers, ive pretty much copied a professional set from him, ive gotten the tapper (thin at one end thick at the other) and thickness (1mm to 2mm) correct but I still can't get near the flexability as the professional set, wondering if theres a additive or something i can mix with my infusion resin to make it more flexible as theres seems stupidly flexible, i was also thinking maybe i go away from just using 2x2 twill carbon and maybe add in some unidirectional carbon? Any help will be much appreciated ๐
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Carbonfibre flippers
Azzaw46
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3 Years Ago
It is possible they are using a more flexible resin or they could have a different fabric inside that has not got the stiffness. UD cloth aligned down the fin would make it stiffer not more flexible.
Warren (Staff)
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3 Years Ago
Maybe the set you are copying are not full carbon, just thin skin over glass .. or all glass with black pigmented resin. If you need them more flexible try using glass or flax fibre instead of...
ttpb7paul
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3 Years Ago
I have just come to the end of a long R and D process of exactly this in carbon and glass. Its not easy and it has to be exact. You need uni core and multi direction skins. I dove tail my uni...
jamie johnson-marshall
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3 Years Ago
Sorry I don't know why the picture is the wrong way up. You'll have issues with dry spots where the resin struggles to penetrate through tight Uni. Even with heat and infusion resin. I find making....
jamie johnson-marshall
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3 Years Ago
Wow that is so cool, yeah i had dramas with it breaking along the straight over laps, i might try put some glass in with it and try your technique and see what i can produce ๐
Azzaw46
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3 Years Ago
Id love it if you could send me some of your details/findings so i can continue learn to try nailing this, im not looking at selling them theyre only for myself and a couple of mates that go spear...
Azzaw46
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3 Years Ago
Jamie im a able to talk futher with you about this subject, im still playing around with it ๐
Azzaw46
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3 Years Ago
I cant actually find you on Facebook. What is the exact spelling? Carbonworkx? There are a few "carbon works"
jamie johnson-marshall
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3 Years Ago
I am considering somethin similiar so we can talk. I can send you my private fb profile in private message. Azzaw, that is not really bending as commercial flippers bend. At least couple of them tha...
Dentex
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3 Years Ago
Could you make the bulk of the laminate +/-45 fiber orientation instead of 0/90? The visual twill ribs would run either along the length or across the width of the foil and it might look funny but it...
explorecomposites
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3 Years Ago
This isnt pushing its limits yet but still after more flex
Azzaw46
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3 Years Ago
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