On Apr 30, 2005, at 15:45, Sam v. Herwaarden wrote:
Do you think it would be possible to build (glue) a frame from ready made carbon tubing?
olafI think the only way you could build a strong frame using that method is using carbon fibre on all the overlaps - so you still need to get dirty :) I have heard of bike producers that do it though, often in combination with a metal frame. You might be able to use a big bonding area, but I think it would be difficult to get all the shapes right and the bonds fitting tightly (much more difficult than just building one this way).
I started preparing the build, and I did have some minor setbacks - all the mixing proportions are weight ratios, but all the measuring stuff you buy measures volumes :) Since epoxy is fairly picky when it comes to ratios, I'll probably need to find a rather precise balance and calculate the volume ratios. Also I didn't realize that the PU foam I bought was only component A :S Every other shop I'd seen that sells the stuff sells sets of component A+B but apparently this one didn't - so now I need to find component be somewhere.
Are you using the PU to make a sandwich construction?
And I've done some practicing with fiberglass
and using the materials and stuff - I hadn't noticed before but solvent stinks! But it's fun so far.
You have to use solvent with epoxi?
I've been able to get all the frame parts (BB, seat tubes, other metal parts) from Optima and thanks to Stefan Knorr I now have the info needed to successfully build disk brake mounts - the only thing I still need to get is the flevobike headset (I guess I'll just phone the people that build the flevobikes for that). Sam
Looking forward to your blog!
Olaf
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