Parts

Building has finally started in Earnest, this is the inner skin on the foredeck. +/- 45 3k with some reinforcement strips.






And the outer skin on the crew deck. One layer 4oz aluminized glass and one layer 3k carbon. The glass helps make the deck more durable/impact resistant for the riggers of smashing and jumping associated with trapeze use. I was hoping the glass would come out all pretty for a clear coat finish, but the weave is a bit wompy and streaked where the carbon shows through in spots. No big deal, I'll just paint it. Hope to get the nomex and inner skin on this weekend.





Bagged on the nomex, the center seam opened up a little, but I'll bond a new piece in when I bag on the outer skin, or maybe cut out a center strip and put in a piece of foam core (which is how I'm doing the fore and aft closeouts on this part). I'm not using over-expanded nomex, the reason for this is because standard cell is just stronger (smaller cells=more cells=better compression/tensile strength) and if you don't have too crazy a shape it forms pretty well.