Last night Mark and Karl laid carbon fiber and balsa wood into the reel frame mold. This is the first step in building a new balloon reel. This is a complex part to make. Two balsa cores (one inch apart) are sandwiched between single layers of carbon above and below. The whole thing gets vacuumed to get a good lamination. The result will be a very light and very strong part. We won’t know how it came out till Saturday. We’re leaving it to cure in it’s vacuum bag til then.
