Really enjoyed watching your series here, cause I was thinking about doing a similar thing. Good to know how hard it is to get this right. Very good effort, mate!
You need more strength in key joints. Like the mast to the plate. I would suggest using cross biased carbon fiber with the epoxy on the whole build. Make sure your epoxy is compatible with the printed plastic substrate as well.
The foil is 95% plastic 5% glass, needs to be the other way around... Try again! with more layers of glass, use some unidirectional fibre layers and plan your layup based on the stressed expected. Consider laying up fibres inside the printed parts to reduce sanding and finishing work.
Really enjoyed watching your series here, cause I was thinking about doing a similar thing. Good to know how hard it is to get this right. Very good effort, mate!
You need more strength in key joints. Like the mast to the plate. I would suggest using cross biased carbon fiber with the epoxy on the whole build. Make sure your epoxy is compatible with the printed plastic substrate as well.
Oh no. Was gonna try building one but after seeing your videos on it, I'm not so sure anymore lol. Thanks for sharing!
The foil is 95% plastic 5% glass, needs to be the other way around... Try again! with more layers of glass, use some unidirectional fibre layers and plan your layup based on the stressed expected.
Consider laying up fibres inside the printed parts to reduce sanding and finishing work.
And add a lot of carbon. Unidirectional high weight is not that expensive
Well done for the try. It broke at the max moment point. No surprise there. More fiberglass and maybe some carbon?