Dean, I built asimilar seat using about 30mm foam, glassed both sides and supported on blocks glued to front and rear spars. I had to get it proof loaded to about 400lbs as I recall, to satisfy our PFA. I did this using bags of grit which it took without a twitch,-could have taken much more only the bags were above my head by the 13th! Used plain old glassfibre. Regards Mac Hampshire UK ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dean Cooper" <dean_coo...@bellsouth.net> To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2004 5:03 AM Subject: KR> Carbon Seat
> Netters, > > After a 4 month hiatus (Summer projects, kids stuff, etc), I finished my > carbon seat today. The link is below. It's built entirely out of foam, > glass, and carbon fiber and rests on the spars without any center supports. > It holds me standing in the middle with minimal flexing. It's amazing how > strong this stuff is. It weighs in at just shy of 4 lbs (3 lbs 15ozs). How > does that compare to others? I'm not sure exactly how much the stock sling > seat and all of it's hardware weighs, but this seat puts my butt about 1.25" > off the bottom of the fuselage... :-) > > http://www.geocities.com/djramccoop1/Seat.html > > > See you at the gathering!! Mark J, how many days is it... :-) > > Dean Cooper > Jacksonville, FL > Email me at dean_coo...@bellsouth.net > See my KR project at www.geocities.com/djramccoop1/KR2_Home.html > > > > _______________________________________ > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html
