Carbon fiber cloth for Treger's vp prop hub?

From: leop12345 <leop_at_lyradev.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 23:19:47 -0000

A recent INAV shows a plan for Ivan Treger's F1D vp prop hub. The composite screw holder is made from carbon fiber cloth and foam. The foam is easily found but the carbon cloth (looks to be plain weave in the drawing) is specified to be 0.05mm thick. This works out to 0.002" or about 1 oz per square yard in weight.

I cannot find cloth this light and even 2 oz cloth, at 0.004", is rare (and expensive). Does anyone know if Treger's plan's specification is incorrect? If not, does anyone know where Treger obtain the carbon fiber cloth he used.

Treger's screw holder is neat because once one makes the composite structure piece, individual screw holders can be quickly cut off, drilled, and tapped. This makes for a neat way to produce many such screw holders.

Thanks in advance,

Leo

Bloomington IN
Received on Thu Jan 06 2011 - 15:19:51 CET