That new Ford F150 is going to cost you

BenK wrote:
Buddies bought carbon fiber fishing rods vs the blanks I use to make my stuff...theirs about five times more than any fiberglass rod. I've made bamboo fly rods, so under stand about rod materials

Same buddies went to carbon windsurfer masts...another about five times my fiberglass mast....am still faster and on a +20 year old board to boot (sinker, inter island racer)

Truck frames CAN BE MADE OF ALU....but they would HUGE vs same rated steel

Reference carbon fiber bicycles as PLASTIC for the affect...OBTW that is also a correct
Monicker. As carbon fiber is just carbon fiber strands, spun into thread, then woven into cloth, then laminated into sheets using polyester epoxy, then baked under pressure
The same as fiberglass

Like while in buddies toy and bicycle shop...customer was there yelling at his service staff
He took a very expensive carbon fiber bike on the train commute to SF and it cracked
Told him not the shops fault, but his for taking a plastic bike on a commuter train
Where others lay their steel n ALU bikes on each other...that is where coined plastic
In reference to CB

Material science....like lead is better than iron for bullet slugs. Better yet would be depleted uranium, but there are down sides...like radiation

All materials can be used just about anywhere...it is in the plus/minus decision making

Don't want to nit pik but I have never seen a high modulus fibre in a polyester matrix ,its always a epoxy and always baked in a autoclave (I have seen 80' boat in a oven)

I have seen class 8 truck frames in al and they are no bigger then steel,just much thicker.