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Re: Cool Frame Ideas?

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Originally Posted by Hachiban VIII View Post
Get a piece of foam, carve it into the right shape. Add some spruce spars for extra structural suport. Cover it with fiber-glass or carbon-fiber, resin the whole thing and cover it with seran wrap to get it nice and smooth.

Then peil off the seran wrap an you'll have a nice smooth, strong, and earodynamic frame. And depending how well you squeeze out the excess resin - light too.

I've always wanted to build a robot that way. I <3 Fiber Glass
We may try some more composite work this year. Last year we learned how to do some basic layups and such, but it would be really cool to build an arm or more interesting mechanism out of carbon fiber rather than a square ramp, which rarely got used. Unlike what someone said, you don't need a large oven, you can build a simple one with just heat lamps. You just need to get the temp up to around 100 or so. Last year we turned a tool closet into a "hot box" to cure our ramps.
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