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 PostPosted: January 23rd, 2013, 11:26 am   
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If you build light seats be sure to use Kevlar with them, carbon is like razor blades when or if it fails and can be deadly. Carbon Kevlar is fine.


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 PostPosted: January 23rd, 2013, 12:22 pm   
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Thanks RBT for the recommendation.
composites Canada has a kevlar and carbon fabric that looks pretty nice! i dont think ill be laying up a seat in carbon just yet. because I don't have the cash flow to let me buy carbon fiber unless people want carbon fiber seats and are willing to purchase.
I will be making a call today and going to figure out the price on some exotic materials. so I can get a better idea on what a big carbon fiber layup would cost.

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 PostPosted: January 23rd, 2013, 7:25 pm   
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Hey guys!
well a bit of progress has been made on making this seat mold into a piece i can vacuum infuse quickly
The mold is flipped over and i am cutting out a "rim" around it out of marine grade ply
this lip will then be sanded, epoxied and layed in gelcoat, and with the help of polyfair i will seamlessly incorporate it into the seat so that i can use this lip to adhere my vacuum bag and vacuum lines too,
thus building a seat that i can infuse very easily!
so for those of you that want a seat!, by next week i hope to have one of these babies done!
and ill weigh it as well.
my first seat i popped out of the mold was a hand layup, slightly over built but it weighed in just under 6 lbs. which is probably to heavy for the racer!
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 PostPosted: January 23rd, 2013, 11:42 pm   
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How much would a carbon seat be? 416 655 1438. Lee

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 PostPosted: January 24th, 2013, 8:41 am   
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Welcome aboard...look forward to seeing the progress!

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 PostPosted: January 24th, 2013, 10:02 am   
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How much would a carbon seat be? 416 655 1438. Lee

Not sure yet Sir!
to be honest i am not even sure what to charge for a regular seat.
however i have built some of these before i posted on here for some go car guys and i sold them for about 100- 150 bucks a piece ( fiberglass) ill know better shortly on the time while infusing
with CF, I will find out tomorrow.
which brings me to my next question.....
what would YOU pay for a new CF seat?

so far thats 3 CF seats people have been interested in, so i may end up buying 10 yards of it or so and laying a couple CF seats up.
now with the Advice from RBT, it wont be pure CF, it will be CF and Kevlar due to safety reasons.

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 PostPosted: January 24th, 2013, 10:53 am   
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 PostPosted: January 24th, 2013, 9:22 pm   
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Great talking to you.

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 PostPosted: January 24th, 2013, 10:33 pm   
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As with you Jeff.

Here is my frame for the seat , next will be sanding, some resin and Polyfair to fill the small void, then i'll lay down tooling gelcoat.
going to be good for bagging. I hope!
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 PostPosted: January 26th, 2013, 8:38 am   
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This is great. Welcome to hpbc. I was following you on S&F but now can here! I like the pro comp deck and am looking forward to see this come together for you.

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