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Old 07-21-2016, 02:44 AM   #80 (permalink)
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That looks like a submarine. There's a lot of [rusty] steel, but it is untriangulated. You could put an intermediate layer of steel birdcage under the aluminum and over this:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandrail

...and have something that is ready to roll end-over-end. In miniature, I expect that's what aerohead is doing.

Don't you agree that the redwood strips over the windshield, with the front lip, on my Baja resembles the aerocap on your truck? Hand-selected redwood or spruce with properly lapped joins and epoxied hemp or basalt tape wrapped joints and it would be ready for boat [tail] wrap.

Better the windshield is a hexagon of glass with a triangle on each side.
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