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From: "raincityflyer" <lewis08@...>
Date: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 12:41 AM
Subject: Re: Carbon Booms
Max - I personally stay away from pultuded tubes. I prefer wrapped tubes around 1/4" or 5-6 mm. There are plenty of kite stores online that sell them for $10-12. A Skyshark P100 will just fit in the AG 37 tip rib. Cheers! Chris in Seattle --- In BugHLG@yahoogroups.com, "maxddnj" <maxdd76@...> wrote: > > This is my second post and I apologize up front if this has been covered before. I did a quick search that returned nothing specific, just various mentions. > > What kind of CF Tube are you guys building with for wing spars and booms: Wrapped, Pultruded, Uni-Direction, Braided, etc... ? > > And where are you sourcing these types? > > Thanks for any information. I look forward to building the original first, then the new design when the group irons out any wrinkles. > > Max >