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Posted: 11/15/2011 8:08:40 AM EDT
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Posted: 11/15/2011 8:09:46 AM EDT
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...Want. :P
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Posted: 11/15/2011 8:11:30 AM EDT
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Kinda cool
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Posted: 11/15/2011 8:11:43 AM EDT
[#3]
meh. Id rather have a Old Republic trooper uniform.
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Posted: 11/15/2011 8:11:46 AM EDT
[#4]
want so hard
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Posted: 11/15/2011 8:12:46 AM EDT
[#5]
That's just sick.
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Posted: 11/15/2011 8:12:48 AM EDT
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Hahaha, my buddy and his coworkers at a nascar team call it carpet fiber.
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Posted: 11/15/2011 8:12:50 AM EDT
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Wouldn't that be incredibly expensive to do with real carbon fiber?
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Posted: 11/15/2011 8:14:36 AM EDT
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Wouldn't that be incredibly expensive to do with real carbon fiber? While we can’t say the actual amount that was been spent to produce these suits, lets just say you can optionally purchase a pretty nice car as an alternative.
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Posted: 11/15/2011 8:14:44 AM EDT
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Wouldn't that be incredibly expensive to do with real carbon fiber? read the article.. yes it was.. |
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Posted: 11/15/2011 8:16:37 AM EDT
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Quoted: Wouldn't that be incredibly expensive to do with real carbon fiber? That's what makes it awesome  |
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Posted: 11/15/2011 8:21:49 AM EDT
[#11]
Want
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Posted: 11/15/2011 8:23:31 AM EDT
[#12]
Ok, that's pretty fucking cool!
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Posted: 11/15/2011 8:32:20 AM EDT
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Do they come in 3XL, for the basement?
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Posted: 11/15/2011 8:34:08 AM EDT
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Stormtroopers are not real. It's a M O V I E
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Posted: 11/15/2011 8:35:28 AM EDT
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That's just sick. This!
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Posted: 11/15/2011 8:38:03 AM EDT
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Quoted: Stormtroopers are not real. It's a M O V I E  |
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Posted: 11/15/2011 8:38:35 AM EDT
[#17]
Not how I'd spend my money, but apparently they enjoy it.
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Posted: 11/15/2011 8:44:58 AM EDT
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Stormtroopers are not real. It's a M O V I E 
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Posted: 11/15/2011 8:52:24 AM EDT
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How do they look when painted white?
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Posted: 11/15/2011 8:55:46 AM EDT
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Carbon Fiber!! That is so 21st century. We are way beyond that now.
Why don't you guys use a modern material!! 
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Posted: 11/15/2011 8:57:03 AM EDT
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I would have used silver carbon fiber, but that still looks amazing. Want....
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Posted: 11/15/2011 8:57:49 AM EDT
[#22]
ahhh... nothing a good blaster can't take care of..
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Posted: 11/15/2011 9:10:31 AM EDT
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ahhh... nothing a good blaster can't take care of.. Hell, nothing an ar can't take care of either .... I was pissing through 1/4 cf plate at 100 yards like it was nothing. Then again a sks was drilling 10 layers cf/ 10 layers csm fiberglass in an alternating pattern as well ... 2 in of carbon fiber did stop the z.62x39 although ..... Just saying .... Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Posted: 11/15/2011 9:15:31 AM EDT
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Wouldn't that be incredibly expensive to do with real carbon fiber? read the article.. yes it was.. If they start producing them in mass, the cost per unit will go down :) I'd be in for one. ... but I am a carbon fiber whore. One of my cars is almost 100% carbon fiber bodied. |
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Posted: 11/15/2011 9:19:06 AM EDT
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Quoted: ahhh... nothing a good blaster can't take care of.. That's going to be a little hard because all blasters able to penetrate Stormtrooper armor are illegal under Imperal Law. |
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Posted: 11/15/2011 9:21:51 AM EDT
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That's awesome.
I have a huge carbon fiber fetish. |
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Posted: 11/15/2011 9:52:07 AM EDT
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Wouldn't that be incredibly expensive to do with real carbon fiber? read the article.. yes it was.. If they start producing them in mass, the cost per unit will go down :) I'd be in for one. ... but I am a carbon fiber whore. One of my cars is almost 100% carbon fiber bodied. Just don't hit anything then ....cf likes to shatter Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Posted: 11/15/2011 9:55:59 AM EDT
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Stormtroopers are not real. It's a M O V I E Tell that to the Jews |
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Posted: 11/15/2011 9:56:13 AM EDT
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Those suits are bad ass.
I learned that you can treat weaved kevlar sheets as if they were fiber glass sheets. A fishing boat captain was tired of re-fiber glassing his hull every year, so he put on a couple layers of kevlar. Just form and apply the fiber glass resin, then shape and paint as necessary and you would have a pretty sweet set up as well. |
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Posted: 11/15/2011 10:19:21 AM EDT
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Posted: 11/15/2011 10:23:22 AM EDT
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ahhh... nothing a good blaster can't take care of.. That's going to be a little hard because all blasters able to penetrate Stormtrooper armor are illegal under Imperal Law. Which just goes to prove that no matter how far across the galaxy you travel, gun laws still suck. |
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Posted: 11/15/2011 10:23:52 AM EDT
[#32]
i never got the "look" of carbon fiber.
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Posted: 11/15/2011 10:26:59 AM EDT
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Wouldn't that be incredibly expensive to do with real carbon fiber? read the article.. yes it was.. If they start producing them in mass, the cost per unit will go down :) I'd be in for one. ... but I am a carbon fiber whore. One of my cars is almost 100% carbon fiber bodied. Just don't hit anything then ....cf likes to shatter Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile Really? I've walled the car drifting. No shatter. was able to perform some minor repairs to it, and had the part back on track. It is Dry carbon fiber though, not cheap wet lay. |
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Posted: 11/15/2011 10:54:08 AM EDT
[#34]
Sweet!
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Posted: 11/15/2011 11:34:15 AM EDT
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Wouldn't that be incredibly expensive to do with real carbon fiber? read the article.. yes it was.. If they start producing them in mass, the cost per unit will go down :) I'd be in for one. ... but I am a carbon fiber whore. One of my cars is almost 100% carbon fiber bodied. Pics? |
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Posted: 11/15/2011 4:22:39 PM EDT
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Quoted: Those suits are bad ass. I learned that you can treat weaved kevlar sheets as if they were fiber glass sheets. Level IIIA Trooper armor would rock  |
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Posted: 11/15/2011 4:23:37 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/15/2011 4:28:26 PM EDT
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Kinda like winning a race in the special Olympics
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Posted: 11/15/2011 4:54:43 PM EDT
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Quoted: Kinda like winning a race in the special Olympics  |
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Posted: 11/15/2011 4:59:51 PM EDT
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They sould make a few in vagina pink. Then those dudes could say they've been inside of a vagina. Just sayin...
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Posted: 11/15/2011 5:05:21 PM EDT
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Dope! |
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Posted: 11/15/2011 5:06:33 PM EDT
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Quoted: They sould make a few in vagina pink. Then those dudes could say they've been inside of a vagina. Just sayin...  |
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Posted: 11/15/2011 5:08:43 PM EDT
[#43]
I'm a little short for a stormtrooper.
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Posted: 11/15/2011 5:09:47 PM EDT
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Those suits are bad ass. I learned that you can treat weaved kevlar sheets as if they were fiber glass sheets. Level IIIA Trooper armor would rock I have had this idea for 4 years. |
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Posted: 11/15/2011 5:10:55 PM EDT
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Those suits are bad ass. I learned that you can treat weaved kevlar sheets as if they were fiber glass sheets. Level IIIA Trooper armor would rock I have had this idea for 4 years. Well what the fuck is the hold up?
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Posted: 11/15/2011 5:13:16 PM EDT
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Those suits are bad ass. I learned that you can treat weaved kevlar sheets as if they were fiber glass sheets. Level IIIA Trooper armor would rock I have had this idea for 4 years. Well what the fuck is the hold up? Money, materials, and experience 
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Posted: 11/15/2011 5:24:41 PM EDT
[#47]
Do they come in XXX-Fat?
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Posted: 11/15/2011 5:25:05 PM EDT
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Stormtroopers are not real. It's a M O V I E Tell that to the Jews "Stormtrooper" was a WWI designation, not WWII. 
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Posted: 11/15/2011 5:25:57 PM EDT
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Wouldn't that be incredibly expensive to do with real carbon fiber? read the article.. yes it was.. If they start producing them in mass, the cost per unit will go down :) I'd be in for one. ... but I am a carbon fiber whore. One of my cars is almost 100% carbon fiber bodied. Just don't hit anything then ....cf likes to shatter Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile Really? I've walled the car drifting. No shatter. was able to perform some minor repairs to it, and had the part back on track. It is Dry carbon fiber though, not cheap wet lay. even wet lay up won't "shatter " like glass ... what i meant to say was that it splinters when it fails, and that when it reaches it's ultimate load capacity it fails quickly and violently. i have shot at 1/4 inch carbon fiber plate, and the only visible damage was a nasty splintered hole. i also did some load testing on CF prepreg (ie dry) samples both in compression and tension. during the compression test it was damm near like an explosion when it finally broke throwing a fair amount of splinters against the safety shielding. the tension testing was not as impressive although. when running the same test with fiberglass/vinyl ester resin (vs cf with epoxy wet lay and prepreg) the results were less impressive. it would "give" as it failed, causing more visible delamanations of the layers into the material first. then again, the difference between vinyl ester resins and epoxy is fairly significant with how it bonds and cross links the molecules and fibers. BTW this was not an apples to apples comparison, it was more of " hey look i have these samples, some spare time and all this equipment .... lets break something"
the construction of the samples were different as well. the CF was 1/4 in thick twill weave on the prepreg and 3/16 unidirectional on the wet lay up. the fiberglass was a combo of nexus fabric on the outer surface, layers of csm,wr,layers of csm,wr,layers of csm, then "c" glass on the finish side for a thickness close to 1/2 inch. |
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Posted: 11/15/2011 5:26:09 PM EDT
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Huh. Not to shibby. People have too much time on their hands, but still cool.
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