Re: Re: what is difficult in building indoor duration

From: Nick Ray <lasray_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 16:09:51 -0400

I think the ease of construction has a great deal to do with the materials
involved. A Brown / Kagan style hub is well within the range of average
indoorist. Most of the materials can ordered from A2Zcorp or even scavenged
locally. However, composite hubs like Treger, Tyson and Sandborn have built
require substantially more involved manufacturing processes.
All three use formed fiberglass tubes and carbon layup screw holders. The
vacuum bagging process alone is cost prohibitive for many people. One has
to make 6 or 7 composite hubs to break even when compared to the cost of
buying them from Treger. Maybe someone would like to produce V/P kits where
the base components are formed and then sent out with assembly
instructions.

If F1D keeps moving in the direction of using more and more composite
technology we are going to be in the same situation as F1B within the next
ten years. I am for not placing materials restrictions on the models, but
at the same time I think that for many competitors, particularly juniors we
may have to decide how we would like to go forward with regard to the BOM
as the models become more intricate.

Regards,

Nick
Received on Wed Oct 17 2012 - 13:09:52 CEST