Re: [ATM] aluminum mesh tube

["matt" <electro_optic@bellsouth.net>]

if I had the materials for free , no, if someone _paid_ me to do it like
that _and_ gave me the materials for free , I would refuse.

Aluminum mesh is very different from fiberglass cloth. Gluing layers of mesh
doesn't work because the layers lack the large surface contact area of the
fiberglass cloth .
Also Al density is more than double glass density , so you'd make a double
the weight , 1/10 the strength (of glass) aluminum tube .

Honestly , I'd keep the epoxy, buy some fiberglass and make a real glass
tube . Sell the Al for scrap . Even rolling up a doorskin and epoxying on
top a single layer of glass is 1000 times better than the aluminum mesh
idea.

best regards,
matt tudor


-----Original Message-----
From: Bob May <bobmay@nethere.com>
To: atm@atmlist.net <atm@atmlist.net>
Date: Friday, August 12, 2005 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: [ATM] aluminum mesh tube


>The only reason that I'd do such a process is that I've got some
>mesh floating around and some fiberglass epoxy that just needs to
>be used up.
>Process would be the same as doing it with standard fiberglass
>cloth.  I would probably want to have the mesh freshly
>sandblasted just to insure that there would be enough tooth for
>the epoxy to hold to the mesh.
>Bob May
>bobmay@nethere.com
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