No Twizz, you actually made yours, it's embodied work makes it way cooler!

Zipped up a camber board last night. The final pass was done with a ball nose cutter at a 0.5mm stepover. Probably overkill. Definitely felt like overkill, it took ages!

Had a request for more info on the thermocouple wire, though I'd put it here where everyone can see it. Thermocouples work by using a weird little effect where the joint between two different conductors (i.e. different types of metalwire) produce an small electric potential (i.e. teeny weeny voltage...

Sure is! I'm wondering if it is possible to use an edgebander to apply sidewalls - got plenty of them lying around too...

Made up some tip and tail mould blocks yesterday on a cnc. We used a vacuum bed machine, so first up we skim the spoil board to remove the tracks from previous jobs and get good hold down: http://i.imgur.com/2Rqgw.jpg Then I have to nervously watch to see if we've screwed something up with the CAM.....

Gotcha, thanks.

They do look gorgeous It must add some stiffness, though? Or do you not notice the difference?

Hey Deep, another question about your carbon topsheets... It's uni carbon right? And if so, how do you find the durability along the top of the sidewall?

Cheers Richie, yeah definitely some things to do differently next time. I've been working on the brain over the last couple of days. We're setting up a 4 output control box, 3 pids and a switched, for 2 mats, a heated postcure / warming box and air circulation for the box. The PIDs are cheapies from...

The use of Gallium is patented, so you can read all about it: A synthetic resin composition having particles of metallic gallium or gallium alloy dispersed uniformly in a synthetic resin is particularly useful for the production of a surfacing material for a glider on snow or ice. This is because wh...

Repairs done now on the dodgy mat. I think long term we'll be looking to replace it, but for now it's ok. Some crappy phone pics- Exposing a fault, bridging with copper shim. this was prior to soldering: http://i.imgur.com/4UYQY.jpg Patched up, plastic laid on and smoothed over for a good finish. ht...

Some heat mat drama ensued last night. We've made 2 mats, one is on +45/-45 and the other 0/90. http://i.imgur.com/5OgWA.jpg We are trimming the mats down to 1cm past the outer heat wire. With a workshop light behind the mat, it was easy to see where our wires are: http://i.imgur.com/r9MZD.jpg A kni...

Thanks Goz, the photos are from a few different locations but most of them are taken in the workshop, warehouse, and spindle room of my work; we sell large scale wood processing stuff like cncs, edgebanders, and high speed solid wood processing stuff (some smaller home workshop stuff too, like buzze...

More photos: I ripped up some sheets of old ply and chip to serve as spacers to adjust our cavity height on a panel saw: http://i.imgur.com/GyT6s.jpg We rested the cat track on the spacers and started stringing. We used 4mm shock cord, cheap by the 100m roll. Because I had to buy 100m of it, we ran ...

Cheers Twizz. I've actually gone through and read that entire forum, shape should be fine, it's more that I want to get that subjective judgement of "that sounds stiff" or "that sounds medium" with regards to a core thickness profile. Seems that it just takes a bit of experience ...

Des, Eta is a couple of weeks. Waiting on materials and those last couple of jobs that stretch out, like wiring etc. But I need new skis so I don't want to piss around. Twizz, Yeah, there are a lot of perks to building at work. My company sells machinery, so there are lots of usful things around the...

We've built two heater mats based on the excellent work laid down in the DIY heater mat thread. Our wire was very thin, we've had to do 4 runs up and down the mat per loop off the bus bars, and we used a 16mm spacing. I have a feeling we've gone about this the hard way, because the wire is actually ...