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Christopher Aldgate – '.a frame build'. A 2016 – Frame repairs. {}. So 2016 begins with the delivery of several smashed frames! A fairly standard mid-range Scott Pro One, which appears to have been broad swiped by a vehicle, although this is speculation. It has two fractures across a seat and chain stay, and also a rather nasty bend to the rear hanger. This should be super easy to mend. The damage to the Scott has been realigned and filled. You can see the layup schedule Specialized used…. After sanding ...
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Christopher Aldgate – '.a frame build'. A frame build {. Homemade carbon road frame project. Can you home fabricate a carbon road frame? I had heard that you could do it with if not minimal craft, at least with minimal means. I asked around but the response from those with experience, riders, engineers, designers etc was that you needed an autoclave – the capacity to compress and heat the composite in a unified moment. This is a test attempt for a more significant mould I’ll be making in the coming...
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carbonology MGB GT blog: Way back in the mists of time...
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Tuesday, 3 November 2009. Way back in the mists of time. Hi and welcome to the carbonology.com. A little history lesson first. A few years back we bought an old and falling to pieces MGB GT and brought it back to the works with a view to building carbon panels for it, uprating everything with second hand parts and preparing it for racing or hill climbing or whatever. In a way the GT became like a mascot. A slightly awkward, difficult to work around mascot. Sometimes we've struggled for space, but...Well ...
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carbonology.com 18ft skiff: May 2009
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Wednesday, 27 May 2009. Mounting hardware on a carbon panel on a boat, race car, aeroplane, coffee table, whatever presents a simple problem. Most of these types of construction are monocoque and necessarily lightly built, in many cases carbon skins seperated by a constructional foam core. If you screw a fitting down it is being held by less than half a millimetre of carbon and some extremely brittle polyeurathane core - ie by not much at all and the result is very predictable! At the loading area as wel...
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carbonology.com 18ft skiff: July 2009
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Monday, 6 July 2009. It was very frustrating having to work while the inaugural 18fter Mark Foy Trophy. Was being hotly contested in Carnac. The racing looked tight and fair with a good range of conditions (although I think it was big rigs all week, am I right? Robert Greenhalgh, Dan Johnson and Phil Harmer pictured above (thanks to Yachts and Yachting. Not that that is a prediction of when we will hit the water! The tube is pull wound so it is particularly stable in torsion - which it is very good for r...
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carbonology.com 18ft skiff: October 2009
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Wednesday, 28 October 2009. Saturday 24 October 12.10. Launched! The end of one adventure, the start of another! It seems like months - indeed it is months since the last blog entry, but man when we get busy here at carbonology.com. But as you can see, the racks looked great when they were finished. I'll put some more detail up about how we rigged the boat in the next few days. promise! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Deck Hardware Technical Partners. Welcome to our 2009 Project. S website by clicking here.
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carbonology.com 18ft skiff: March 2009
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Tuesday, 24 March 2009. Let loose with a jigsaw = BIG trouble! Interestingly while the amount of email traffic about the skiff has settled to a dull roar, a curious and anonymous note arrived on my desk this week giving a complete and thoroughly researched answer to why orange jam is called marmalade and then posing a whole host of questions which I am struggling to find answers to! I will have to think of an interesting way to answer it in due course! So what have we been up to? Sunday, 8 March 2009.
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carbonology MGB GT blog: November 2009
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Wednesday, 4 November 2009. MGB GT Vs MGB GT C. Body Type: Front Engine, rear wheel drive 2 door fixed head coupe with opening tail gate (hatchback)comprising:. Bolt on steel valances and front wing panels on a stressed steel monocoque. Steel doors and tailgate, Aluminium bonnet. Steel front suspension subframe. Rear suspension attached to stressed members of chassis/monocoque. Lever arm shock absorbers. Chrome bumpers and over riders (1965 to 1973), Rubber moulded bumpers'74 on. Steel front suspension s...
