Wind your own Carbon tube spars

[eagle4]

Have any of you seen this? Its a tool that lets you roll your own carbon tubes. Might even be something that the flitetest guys might be interested in. Start using carbon tubes in their builds.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...ds-first-desktop-filament-winder?ref=category

 

[xuzme720]

Makes me wish I had an extra $1200 laying around!

 

[RoyBro]

Makes me wish I had an extra $1200 laying around!

I ALWAYS wish I had and extra $1200 laying around.

 

[xuzme720]

I ALWAYS wish I had and extra $1200 laying around.

Well, yeah, but in this case it would have a definite purpose...

It would probably end up gathering dust next to the vinyl cutter and knife sharpening system I thought would make good side moneymakers...

 

[tramsgar]

Know a guy who worked making tubes like that on an industrial scale. All the safety precautions and protective gear they used - still was a big health hazard...

 

[Tritium]

If I had $1200 laying around it would only be because I could not decide which of 12 different items I wanted worse.

Thurmond

 

[iCrash]

I didn't see anywhere on his kickstarter that compared the strength of the commercial tubes and the ones the x-winder makes. Sure it's a fraction of the cost, but what is the performance difference?

 

[chaydock]

That's a neat concept. I love CF, but don't use it enough to warrant dropping $1.3k on a winder. I'm curious though how they get it off the winding tube. Too bad they don't show a start to finish of how it's used.

 

[earthsciteach]

I wonder how woven fiberglass cloth wrapped around a tube with epoxy resin would compare in performance to cf on the scale of RC aircraft.