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Re: Legality of Fiberglass as a building material?

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Originally Posted by Gdeaver View Post
It's all in the design, choice of material and construction techniques. We have made many light weight and durable arms from pultrusions. Never had a failure. I have seen many AL arms eat them selves. I have seen teams use poor construction methods with Pultrusions and watch them fail.
Same here, we've used it in simple but effective applications on our 2008 arm.

Machining/drilling holes in fiberglass is the only hassle. Masks and gloves along with goggles
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