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Landyacht,
Question; Regarding the Seat, How many layers of Fiber Glass Matting do you use in the ones you make??
As you know I have made the plug.
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Landyacht,
Question; Regarding the Seat, How many layers of Fiber Glass Matting do you use in the ones you make??
As you know I have made the plug








This is a material I have never done and am keen to go for it, as it were
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ron, the shape you have there has no " overturned " edges to stiffen it length ways , and needs more shape to stop it twisting.
have a think about some of the cross-sections that have been shown on the seat building threads. the turned over sides add support without adding weight. simply adding more glass will often not fix the problem.
do you want to put this one in the construction section

LOL That is where I thought I put it Took me a half hour to find it the next day LOL.
Will do.

What you see in the pic is a plug. My intent is to put a Ply wood base in the seat glassed in, another under the knees at the mid way mount. As for the turn over, I was going to use something like a bit of garden hose and enclose it in the glass construct. This would form a bead-------I think? or the other way was to fold the layers to from a thick edge about 32mm wide along the outside edge.
Ron
PS. Like I said I've never tried this sort of thing before.

Hi all

after breaking Ians land yacht trying to break the land speed record i decided to start one of my own and here is the first photo {the fifth landyacht to be constructed in his shed}



planning to build it to landyachts plans
planning to put polyurethane bushes initially with a pushbike front wheel to see how it works out and fallshaw rear wheels
hoping to get suggestions on the seat whether it be foam sandwich, full fiberglass or any other construction techniques.

ps to kody the Shepard in ians avatar is mine who goes over to visit the bear on the floor next to her.

I have decided a lefroy mini is the go due to ease of transport ,similar specs to the blokarts (making racing interesting) and to support what could become a very interesting class.With this in mind I hope Corey goes ahead with his plans for a couple of lefroy minis and I might be able to make a race of it (unlike the beating he gave me in the 16 sq). As you can see below I have only started construction this afternoon.
The first 3 photos are a timber mock up to look at room, stress and structural problems



The forth is the first weld of the project

Axle cut and welded