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Carbon fibre leg :)

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By carbonfibreworks - 10/4/2013 8:36:50 PM

Well not quite a full leg but one of my customers (and a good friend) had a problem with his plastic lower leg support so asked i could help him out. The result is an over engineered component with three layers of 450g carbon and one layer of Kevlar , it still weighs less than the part its replacing and is strong enough to be used on a baby elephant Smile All materials from EC . Please take note, making items like the one below must be done so with extreme caution and doing so without the correct knowledge/liability insurance etc could leave you open to litigation should it fail and cause injury. I am doing this as a request from a friend and will not be making the part on a commercial basis .
www.carbonfibreworks.co.uk

 
By Warren (Staff) - 10/7/2013 10:33:28 AM

Less layers = more flexible. Replace carbon with kevlar also would make it more flexible.