Composites
This week we decided to design a fiberglass shelf. Each member of the group will design a different textures for his shelf.First we designed the casting mold parts.
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You can download the shelf and L file. We planned two identical parts that one of them is a two Milmtrim smaller.
After we finished designing the parts we uploded the files to the shopbot computer for milling.
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Once the machin finished milling the parts we sepreted them and conected them together.
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and started playing with the matirials we thot of my first atempt was to use tree lifs bitwin the leyrs of fibergalss I used two leyars of faiber and two of lifs then prest the two moleds together with kalmps and let it dary for 24h.
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the final result was pretty good on the fiberglass side but the material I used did not cooperate with the project.
I realize that green tree leafs have a good chance of rotting during the drying time.
for my second attempt i decided to use old t-shirt with no fiberglass.
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After it braid for 24h I cut out the excess fiber and mills the L part using the shopbot.
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I decided to test if the L's will fit in to the shelf as we design.
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