Super Jet Tray thickness?

[swapmeet]

Question: How thick should the tray be? Or is should the thickness be in 'weight' of material?

Is there a rule of thumb or does everyone just wing it?

The story:
On my RN, I defoamed, refoamed with XPS or whatever the home insulation stuff is and now i'm laying up my new tray with carbon fiber.
The glass I cut out was literally 3/8" thick, which seems beyond overkill to me.

I'm using 19.7oz carbon 2x2 twill, I have 3 layers down under where you would typically stand, and two layers everywhere else.
I don't want to make it too thin, but I don't want to make it too heavy either... thats the whole reason I defoamed and used Carbon to rebuild.


Thanks in advance...

 

[Joker]

I bought the widen fx1 tray from tom21 and that thing is a good 3/8 inch thick and sturdy as hell.

 

[ADDict]

I just winged it on my old RN build. If I remember correctly I laid mine up using 17oz biax and I'm almost positive I did three layers everywhere and one more stretching across the holds. It had some flex but never busted. I was laying it on top of the pink building foam everyone uses, stacked vertically so that added some support underneath I'm sure.

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[swapmeet]

Yeah addict, my foam is stacked the same way.

Maybe I should do one or two more layers of carbon or throw another layer of Kevlar in for good measure. Hmm...

 

[swapmeet]

I just did the math. I have 4 layers of carbon in the foothold areas plus that layer of Kevlar. I stood in the tray and it didn't make a peep. Obviously the pressure of a hard landing is probably double of me just standing in the tray.

Ill see if anyone else has some wisdom, but I may leave it as is.

 

[Joker]

You should be fine with your layup. If you are putting down 26mm padding you should will be EXTRA fine because some of the force you will exert during a hard landing will be absorbed by the compression of the underpadding

 

[burton148]

I used 2 layers of 12 ounce biax and one 17 biax and then a layer of 8 cloth. i dont like the 17 cause its a pain to wet out. i think your four layers of carbon will be good to go.

 

[swapmeet]

Thanks ya'll!! (Out of "thanks" sry)

Sounds like I'm headed the right direction.