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Building Carbon Fibre Chainplates: Part Two — How It Actually Stays In

Building Carbon Fibre Chainplates: Part Two — How It Actually Stays In Part One showed the build. This one answers the question that came in from almost everyone who watched it: how does that black carbon strap actually stay attached to the boat? It’s a fair question, and the answer is worth understanding properly, because […]

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carbon fiber chainplate and bulkhead piece laminated into place

The Right Way to Bolt Into a Carbon Fibre Boat: Threaded Inserts vs. Helicoils

The Right Way to Bolt Into a Carbon Fibre Boat: Threaded Inserts vs. Helicoils Mounting a Clark pump for the watermaker onto a bulkhead sounds like a small job. Getting the threading right underneath it is where the actual engineering happens. Why bolt-into-composite matters more than it looks like it should The plan here is

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