ORIGINAL: Diesel6401
Att the end of the day you won't see a high priced high speed rc boat made of plastic. You won't see plastic on a airplane and it's not because of cost! There are bolts on airplanes that are $60 - $100 each there is rolls tape we use that are $100 per roll, just the stupid interior stickers and placards are even $15 or more the point I am trying to make is when it comes to commerical airplanes and military airplanescost isn't the reason they use certain materials. The B2 bomber cost over $1 billion per unit, good luck finding plastic on it! Why do you suppose that the cheaper lower end entry level rc boats are made of plastic, but the higher end rc boats are made of fiberglass? The only boats that I currently no that is really REALLY good and worth the cost is the vac-u-pickle and boats by bby and even the plastic bby boats are covered in FG or CF...
Even if the Spartan was made of fiberglass at the end of the day it still sucks! and that's what the question is about. Like I mentioned plastic is good stuff, but when it comes to certain applications it's limited!
Yes I do know the dreamliner is made of Carbon Fiber! At then end of the day ALL FG and CF has bits of plastic in it, but plastic ALONE is not suffcient. The dreamliner uses a lot of non-tradtional methods including the first to use Litium Batteries.
ORIGINAL: phmaximus
ok after some looking around from what i can understand ABS is stronger, can take a bigger impact with out cracking
Best example safty helmats/hats, they stoped making them out of fiberglass in the 1940's
The reson u dont see it more is it costs so much to make a highpressure mould, and the thought of making a mould for a real boat wouldent be cost affective.
There is alot of debait about this on the internet.
Fact fiberglass is very cheap to make
Fact fiberglass is easy to make moulds for
Fact fiberglass is easy to work with
Fact fiberglass can be lighter that ABS (think thats why they use it on planes)
no kidding, ever seen a smashed up fiberglass bodykit or motor bike faring??? I have, ive never seen the plastic ones brake like fiberglass does.
The main reson u dont see many ABS body kits is the price, they are $2000 -$10,000 more than there fiberglass counter parts (car bodykits)
sure some fiberglass is close to ABS, but generally its not, all depends who moulded it.
thats funny im a ex vehicle mechanic & i know for a fact that any insurance company in Australia will not use fiberglass bumper bars, to repair dammaged cars.
for the sheer fact that they are brittle.
Test go kick the front bumper on ur car as hard as u can, u might be luckly to scratch it thats about it. no go kick a fiberglass jap import bumper as hard as u can, $10 says ur foot goes straight through it
Been a aircraft mechanic do u know about the all new Boeing 787 Dreamliner?? carbon fiber reinforced plastic...... sounds like the future to me
good old debat, im still open to any new information & ideas
My Aunt belive it or not, was part of the development of that plane...
Kinda blows me away that some try to argue such strange things as costs of why this or that when it comes to this boat, and your comments kinda open up the truth D
