RE: carbon fiber [TANKS]

["Gene Burbeck" <gburb-at-advantagecs.com>]

If you want an unuasually light, nimble, fast, and expensive tank, carbon fiber is 
the way to go. 

IMHO carbon fiber *sucks* as robot ARMOR - what it excels at is incredible STRENGTH 
for its weight in building FRAMES. Most good smaller robots keep the carbon fiber 
away from areas the other bot can hit and use metal or thick platic (UHMW, etc. ). 
The carbon fiber can be used for a very strong, yet light frame. The drawback to 
carbon fiber when used in robots is that while it is very strong, it's easy to cut. 
Try to bust a CF plate with a hammer and it wont break - try hitting it edge-on with 
an axe and the CF will break. This what happens when a good spinning weapon hits CF 
only - more so - even tiny robots carry tremendously more kinetic energy that a 
person can produce by swinging a weapon. 

Gene


-----Original Message-----
From: tanks-admin-at-rctankcombat.com on behalf of David  Beazley
Sent: Sun 2/25/2007 7:34 AM
To: tanks-at-rctankcombat.com
Subject: Re: carbon fiber [TANKS]
 
I am new to tanks and have not started to build yet, (I am waiting for after the 
Tank Fest 2007) but I would think carbon fiber would be a good material.  I have 
used it in RC aircraft with good results.  I  use good quality epoxy (West Systems) 
with carbon and glass fiber materials.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Gregory Pwneror 
  To: tanks-at-rctankcombat.com 
  Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 1:22 AM
  Subject: carbon fiber [TANKS]


  would carbon fiber be good for tanks since its light and its made to be for robot 
aroumer.
  and also how do you stick sheets of carbon fiber together?
  -greg