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Old 07-20-2011, 04:25 AM
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Whats the lightest , material for a casting deck
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Old 07-20-2011, 06:18 AM
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Cored composite.. like end grain balsa core with carbon fibres below and glass fibre on top , epoxied with vacuum infusion. IMO
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Old 07-20-2011, 11:54 AM
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What Teddy said except.......

For a deck a honeycomb core like this http://nida-core.com/english/index.htm is far lighter than balsa........
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