Blueskies wrote:
Yes, I guess that would be a big piece of glass (don't take anything out of context here!). Do the plans/instructions
have any other suggested way to lay up the panels?

The directions say to lay it up on a couple pieces of MDF laid
side-to-side, with a piece of tape down the center. I have to cut forms
for the stainless steel ribs, so I thought an improvement on this
technique might be to use the forms to shape the MDF so that the
resulting layup is nearly the correct shape already. Very little
bending==very little built up stress.

The biggest improvement would be not to have to make the skins at all.
I've looked at G-10 and FR4, and have found several manufactures with
lots of data sheets. Reading them, I keep hearing that eerie refrain,
"You are in a maze of rooms, all slightly different..."


As far as bending the finished panels, a two layer lay-up will be quite flexible, even fully cured, and as long as you
don't have to wrap around the LE I'm sure you will not have any problems with cracking. Have you looked at the
http://www.westsystem.com/ site? Good stuff...


Looked there. Good stuff...IF you're building a boat, or a trailer, or
a chair. Goes back to what I said before. Every manufacturers claim
that what they have is good for whatever you're doing. While that just
may be true, but I don't trust it to be, and it is so much unfamiliar
territory that I just keep getting lost. What I need is a map to help
seperate the hype from the information.

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