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Re: Carbon Fiber

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Originally Posted by Tristan Lall
If you had used carbon fibre for the shooter wheel itself, I hope that you would also have had the presence of mind to do some serious investigation into the effects of that thing shattering when struck or jammed suddenly. As an inspector, I would have been very concerned about the potential for carbon fibre shards to be expelled from such a device as it failed.
We weren't going to use it for the wheel, just the shell around the wheel. We decided to stick with aluminum as you can see in This Picture
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