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Old 10-25-2010, 07:41 AM
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Originally Posted by TheDon View Post
The part can be made out of fiberglass or carbon fiber but those materials are not as impact resistant as the plastic. I don't know what plastic it is but the part was probably made by injection molding.

But woven fiberglass is cheap and if I had the time and money I could probably replicate them out of FB easily.
Last summer I did some 'drill stops' and riveted in some reinforcement metal strips around some curved areas where stress cracks happened. I thought it was all plastic - until I drilled it and got a good look at what came out.

It seems to be a fiberglass core (at least in the high stress areas) with molded plastic around it.
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