build it out of Graphine!

-Craig

On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Rocket J Squirrel <
camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:

> Work some nanotubes into the thing and you'll have something.
>
> On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 22:33 -0700, Don Hanson wrote:
>
> > My 84 inline powered van has been humming along marvelously.  Nothing bad
> > happening, all good for quite a while...
> >
> > I have an older River Dory (aka Drift Boat) in my shop right now, being
> > refurbished for a client.  Normally it's the vanagon's spot.  It spends a
> > lot of time in there being improved, for my own enjoyment...
> > But yesterday as I was coming up our road, Buster's (I am trying out
> > names...Buster Brown.... my shoe box-shaped van is that Brown shoe color,
> > too...Ya think? ) anyway, the window crank broke right off in my hand.  I
> > looked special to find a van to buy without power windows...less to
> break,
> > less to fix.  .Not always the case I guess.
> >
> >   So I un-screwed the handle and thought..."better get on the Net, find a
> > replacement" then I clamped my small vice grip (aka  a Handy Dandy Tool)
> on
> > the shaft to work the window in the mean time.  But then as I was working
> on
> > the boat 're-hab' and had a little West Epoxy mix left from re-bedding
> some
> > gunwale through-bolts, I thought..."Hey, I can just fix that handle, I
> don't
> > have to go to all the trouble of ordering one somewhere and paying
> shipping
> > etc etc"   So I troweled a bit of left over epoxy into the backside of
> the
> > cast aluminum 'skeleton' of the window winder,  and stuck some carbon
> fiber
> > along across the break...Voila!  A carbon fiber composite window handle
> in a
> > Vanagon.  Cool, huh?
> >
> >   I think my next project will be to use some of the nice Brunzeel ply I
> > have kicking around  (Thanks, Rob, for the leftovers) to do some door
> panels
> > in the van...I can then say I have "Uni-directional cellulose components"
> > (sounds high tech..more so than "plywood" eh?) as well as carbon fiber
> > adjustable aerodynamic aids....
> >
> >   Friday Don Hanson
>