Sunday, August 29, 2010

4 – Accident With Local Consequences / steve mothing

there was an unnatural amount of dust gathering on boat, and we finally had wind for the first time in months so we tried to take the boat out today. water was the coldest i have ever felt the gold coast.


session finished 20mins later after I chernobylled another gantry and push rod.



nick took a short vid of steve sailing:


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12 comments:

  1. n4rklaAugust 30, 2010 at 9:08 AM

    that'll happen to the gantry when you porker ass lands on it!

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  2. andrew friendAugust 30, 2010 at 4:31 PM

    I am very glad you managed to cut the russian into the edit!
    double rainbow all the way

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  3. AnonymousAugust 31, 2010 at 9:20 AM

    oh no, that noise is back!!! make it stop!

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  4. nick flutterSeptember 1, 2010 at 10:17 PM

    whats the white round-ish thing?
    the one with the holes

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  5. MARKLASeptember 3, 2010 at 7:53 AM

    guess....

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  6. Samuel SchneiderSeptember 4, 2010 at 3:09 PM

    have you heard of that black carbon stuff? I heard of a guy who made a gantry out of it once....... works for pushrods too i hear.

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  7. n4rklaSeptember 5, 2010 at 10:59 AM

    haha

    that alloy gantry has survived for ages with no problems until markla was bucked off and landed on it, hard. carbon would've just splintered too.

    the pushrod is carbon pultrusion with a uni wrap around the tip. we believe it binds up in the tube and with the short conrod it just bursts out the side. working on a few alternative solutions now.

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  8. MARKLASeptember 5, 2010 at 12:25 PM

    i was able to rebent and sraighten the bottom tube on the water with my foot to sail back in. Couldn't have done that with carbon.

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  9. Samuel SchneiderSeptember 6, 2010 at 1:35 PM

    just playin.... im about to build a gantry out of some filament wound tube. now i'll probably blow it up first time out.....

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  10. UnknownSeptember 16, 2010 at 3:52 AM

    can you send me your plans on email i whant to build a moth links to your plans not working :/

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  11. n4rklaSeptember 18, 2010 at 9:27 PM

    yes, we can...please send us your email address.

    might take some time though, we can be slack and mark has other more serious things on his mind at the moment :) (see mark, I can keep a secret)

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  12. UnknownSeptember 20, 2010 at 8:18 PM

    i be wery grateful for help i planning to make hull from 3mm ply and i like lines of slino :) boorex@wp.pl

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