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Look at the design page for info on the plywood velomobile construction.

Tuesday 9 October 2012

break down!

This morning the body failed. Yesterday I stiffened the spring. While taking a put hole the spring support broke. The connection to the circular sheet in front was cracked a few weeks ago. I should have done something about it then....
The connection in front was failed already a few weeks ago.

When the spring lost support the wheel damaged the body.



5 comments:

  1. Hoeveel kilometer heb je er nu ongeveer mee gereden?

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  2. Something between 500 and 1000 km. But this failure has nothing to do with fatigue. The construction is simply to fragile. I think it will be OK when I add some material (~200 gram).

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  3. Misschien kun je de vering aan het buizenframe bevestigen, dat is denk ik steviger.

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  4. Are you using epoxy resin with this ply wood?

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    1. I used thixotrope epoxy to make fillets.Patrick Hagemann showed me a wooden rim that was glued with a caseine based adhesive that you can make yourself. He thinks a sustaineble alternative for epoxy is very well possible.

      http://plywoodvelomobile.blogspot.nl/2012/09/velomobile-seminar-2012.html

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