We are feeling much better now. My insurance company provided a rental car. We have follow up appointments with our primary care doctor tomorrow. The car has been released for repair It is not as bad as we thought it would be. We took a drive to Galveston and no undue pain. Necks are still rather sore. The wife is rather gun shy about lights turning and clobbered again. And I expect to return to work Thursday.

OK here is an update on the bibe. I got a little done on the struts today.

I epoxied the carbon rods to the lower inboard 4 40 rods. I first sand the 4 40 rods and then started mad a bunch of small nicks all over them in a random pattern with my Dremel and cut off wheel. I cut some of the streamlined aluminum tubing and test fitted it over the carbon rods. Fist thing I noted is that this will not be straight forward. Second thing I noticed is that the tubed at least doubled the wight.

I may rethink these. I am thinking I might glue some balsa to the carbon rods and the sand to the correct shape. I can then cover the balsa with some aluminum or silvery tape or coat. Wife says paint them black, but I am not real keen on that. I wanted some bling here.

I am still going to use the aluminum tubing for the cabane struts..

So here are some pics.

The 4 40 rods that epoxy inside of the carbon rods The shiny spots are the light nicks I dremeled into the rods

The mounting of the 4 40 rods

The aluminum tubing

And aluminum tubing covered carbon rod struts

Ken