Making of the SNX Hull

Nate_D

Nate_D

Location
Houston, TX
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Tacked together.


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Nate_D

Nate_D

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Houston, TX
6lbs on this one. But, it's beefier than it probably need to be. I can probably hit 4lbs -5lbs. Need to do some testing on this one first


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Nate_D

Nate_D

Location
Houston, TX
Nothing imbedded. Going to use stainless washers epoxied to the inside and outside of each side of the pole. Pole is designed to mount using pinch bolts. It's a 130.6oz layup with a 3mm core for the bottom half and 75oz for the top. The design has the bottom handling the forces applied to the pole. The top is mainly cosmetic, but it should add some stiffness to the bottom. The halves are tacked together and smoothed out at the seam with body filler. The only purpose for the body filler is to get the halves lined up and held together while the braided carbon sleeves is shrink wrapped around the pole.

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That's after the braided sleeve and the heat shrink. I wasn't thrilled with the amount of pressure applied by the heat shrink, so I wrapped the whole thing in duct tape.

Eventually I want to move on to inflated bladder molding for the pole, but that will wait until I get the molds done for the adjustable pole.


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Nate_D

Nate_D

Location
Houston, TX
It needs to be washed. Just need to turf and assemble the engine bay.

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The pole came out decent. First time to use a two part mold and bond post infusion, so I learned a lot about what you can and can't do with the heat shrink/braided sleeve method. It's pretty cool stuff, but definitely has its limitations when it comes to changes in geometry, and it requires a lot of post cure finishing work. I think I'm going to make another pole to see if I can perfect this method and see how light I can go on the layup.


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Nate_D

Nate_D

Location
Houston, TX
Sadly no. I just couldn't get it all together in time. The pump gave me hell. Wear ring was swollen in some areas and I spent hours fixing that. Then the pump shoe seal was too thick and wasn't allowing the wear ring mounting tabs to line up. Pole required a lot of post finishing work. Just a lot of little things that I spent hours on.

I was starting to rush to the point where my work was getting sloppy. For example the ride plate has multiple mounting holes drilled and isn't trimmed correctly. I made that plate almost a year ago and needed to be remade anyway. It was my first attempt at visual vac bagged carbon and was full of flaws. Anyway, disappointing I didn't make it, but hopefully I can get this thing wrapped up by tomorrow morning and get to the lake for some testing.


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txsuperjetfreak96

Location
amarillo ,tx
That sucks, i always hate rushing just don't turn out like you want it to, fixing to find out what its gonna take to fit 155mm pump in my bot, i should b good to go by the texhoma ride


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Nate_D

Nate_D

Location
Houston, TX
I was kicking myself last night for not enlarging the pump housing on the plug. 155 + 1/2 dual cooling + trim in a stock sized housing is no fun to work on. Add to that the pump seal issues, I was ready to set it on fire. If I get around to revising the bottom deck, large pump housing is at the top of the list.

When is the Texhoma ride?


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