a decent bond will only occur if you can get the fibreglass to stick to the aluminium anyway ,a bond is only as strong as its weakest element the fibreglass is not the weak element the interface between the aluminium and whatever epoxy or adhesive is used is(some adhesives are not epoxy based)

Google FPL etch (still a bit old) and extrapolate from there or even CAA etch or the phosphoric (sometimes called boeing) process

glassfibre …old hat chaps

sausages and bacon

does the same not apply as the folks using caustic soda and coke

from memory loctite is supposed to do the job of both anti seize and replace the old school washer locking nut etc (mechanical means)

there is one thing it does make me wonder …same names on every thread where do they find the time to ride a bike STW gets 10 bazillion visits a day but are they unique or are 2million from one of the 5 people who are in everythread ………

maybe it the old adage those that can do those that can’t teach

criminal damage? if you had put a conrete block behind his car temporarily and he had reversed into the **** do think he would have driven off saying he couldnt see it

nope but i always read the ones with closed ,recently the pedantic moderati have mad it rather dull by closing anything with a near whiff of duplication instead of anything that clashes with their precious sensibilities

What happened there?

I think my dry sense of humour is frowned upon by the moderati

maybe there should be a sarcasm icon

sometimes one does wonder if its the forum that should be avoided in general and not the contributors

yup as i thought…but for the record i dont have a beef with anyone

i never understand why folks complain when they get given something for free

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/post-coital-clean-up-mumsnet-content

was making bread not the preserve of the poor who couldnt afford to buy it?

There were no two halfs to split STS stood for single tube system the carbon failed when the aluminium lug failed

It’s how they move that freaks me out

I know people that cant control 2 legs let alone 8

spiders are incredible

The thermoplastic split where the two halves were glued together.

i doubt it very much

GT Lobo DH bike, the thermoplastic one, I used to lust after one in Evans by Waterloo Bridge. Silly money and broke if you rode it but it looked the nuts back in the day.

Broke Where?

forks are **** stupid money

What would Singletrackworld have done?

abuse from nobs in cars

you should have followed the ambulance through the lot

Failing that use the NOYE technique

linkedin

i live just overt hill

its absolutely banged it down for 2 days here

I think i mentioned before thats how they mde them on thrust ssc
At the end of the runs the wheels were suffering from cracks around their perimeter they were little more than train wheels

Does make you wonder if they could grow a single crystal big enuff

fruitbat, are you sure that faces flat

Someone has dumped a new laptop with windows 8 on my desk and told me to “do your thang”.. At the moment, it’s not even downloading updates! Do you need to sign in to a Microshit account?

install

kb 2871839 restart

go to store

install 8.1

thats them think they use facebook more

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Caged-Laser-Engineering/147414068707402

dont get me wrong might have sounded harsh they do some good stuff like titanium whats its names for ariel and the like i wonder if they cut them in a vacuum

getting into the cosmetic surgery business then?

Nah jamie i ran out of names for stuff id drop you a mail but dont have it

big kahoonas and small kahoonas

ps im going to have to remove the pic

Caged just get it right, on time, every time and they are a great bunch of guys with some seriously clever ways of working, as quite a few Frame designers on here know only too well…..

ask them to cut an oval tube…to be honest they either couldn’t be arsed or ran out of reasons they couldn’t get a fix on what we wanted …sorry dont have the same experience as you there dom

In the midst of a hilarious team meeting yesterday one of the team constructed a paper plane that looked fiendishly complicated to make. To my astonishment it flew fantastically, it glided for about 10 seconds doing two maybe 3 circuits of the room. He made it quite short and stubby but with big wings. Anyone else have this ability?

so you work in Airbus aerodynamics department

just move to sheffield

Airline Captain.

now thats baller

I used to have one of those jobs that folks said “oooh that must be interesting”

Now i just go to this little white painted building

its very interesting waaaaay more than the “”oooh that must be interesting”other job

I dont actually get paid any money my missus supports me

I get paid peanuts.

Is that legal tender…if so are there minimum wage peanuts?

At this moment in time i smell of wee

this works for me

[quoteI wonder if you could 3D print a mold?[/quote]

Simple answer is yes moulds can be printed

Problem arises if you need to cure at 200 degrees…theres a solution to that also

When you consider its a pretty much self taught job most impressive

it was a serious question is your background in composites,or a career outside this project you don’t have an email

oliver what do you do when your not up to your eyeballs in electrical tape

What stops the depressed school nut job printing an AK47?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22421185

not a lot

the guy that sells these actually stood in a room full of folks (well a lot of bigwigs from airbus and boeing and other stuff) and pointed out at the minute ,strength wise its about as good as an investment casting….

remember when your grandad used to go ,computers when i was a lad? its a bit like that ,not ready for the prime time but its coming

ps it will be surpassed by atom rearanging printers where elements are kind of arranged to produce stuff…ill be dead then though so making body parts from a pallette of elements will still be a bit late to print me new body bits

but expect medical folks to take the lead and make metal pretty obsolete

I used to set up BRT’S each machine has its own way despite the rules of engineering,

but then some sheetmetal companies would go whats a bend radius table we put this number in and it does this

depends also how thick your part is microtooling for little teeny tiny parts bend allowance rules change somewhat…lol

why not get a job on an F1 team they have lots of computers to do stuff

It’s starting to look like 9/11 might have been an inside job after all.

I’m going to go with big insurance scam I think

So was osama the patsy or the underwriter?