More progress towards carbon-fibre stanchions with fully sealed decks.
Today we were using the router to round off the top edges of the FR4 stanchion bases. These will be epoxied onto the existing triangles that the the original stanchions were bolted to. A 26mm carbon-fibre tube will go through this FR4 and all the way through the deck into a hole filled with thickened epoxy. The stanchion tube will slide onto it.
Our Stanchion Design follows what we learned from @Tulasendlesssummer in @ • DIY CARBON FIBER STANCHIONS
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