Exactly one month since my last post. Sorry, folks. Fortunately, a lack of posting does not correlate to a lack of progress. In that time, I've made 16 carbon fiber panels, which doesn't seem like much, but it is a lot of work. On average, I've been able to knock as many as 1 1/2 per day on the weekends, and 1/2 per weekday. It takes about 4 hours for the epoxy to cure and about 3 hours for the clear coat to cure, so a lot of that time is spent waiting - or sleeping because I try to time it so that I finish spraying or infusing before bedtime, which has lead to some late nights.
Here's a picture of the 16 panels. This is most of the 60" high panels, including all of the 60" wall pieces for the cabin and the v-nose, as well as 2 pieces for the roof "ridge", which also happen to be 60". What's still left? The other half, which includes all 5 doors, the small pieces that go above and below 4 of those doors, the cabin roof, and the v-nose roof.
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With the 60" wall panels done, I moved on to those smaller above/below the door pieces today. The first part of that process was laying the larger panels on the trailer floor to get a very accurate measurement of how long they need to be. Here's a look at the wall panels laying on the floor. The door openings are ~25" wide.
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I'm going to try infusing both the above and below the door panels at the same time tomorrow. The one below the door is 3" tall, the one above is 5" tall.
Steve