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Re: [ATM] Carbon Fiber Truss tubes
Art,
Try
https://www.cstsales.com/home.htm
http://www.graphitestore.com/index.asp
Cheers,
Stuart
----- Original Message -----
From: <artbianconi@blast.net>
To: <Atm@atmlist.net>
Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 1:38 PM
Subject: [ATM] Carbon Fiber Truss tubes
> I've lost the links I had to sites for small diameter wrapped carbon fiber
tubes. I
> need them for several open truss designs I am working on.
>
> I'd like to find tubes that are 0.500" OD with a wall thickness of 0.030"
and at
> least 15" long. Or, failing that, something "close enough".
>
> The operative word here is "wrapped" not pultruded.
>
> Wrapped tubes are well suited to the loads that appear in these designs.
> Pultruded tubes are overkill. Besides being many times more expensive,
> pultrusions are capable of forces far beyond what appear in this
application.
>
> Wrapped wil be fine.
>
> Thanks
>
> Art Bianconi
>
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