Golf Club kayaks and bulletproof vests
all have fiberglass in them along with
many other items that may surprise you
hi i’m veronica watchmojo.com and today
we’re going to take a closer look at
fiberglass from the fiber itself to the
finished product
we’re constantly hearing about
fiberglass but can you explain what that
really means
it’s basically sand that’s melted and
made into a fiber and the fiber is very
very fine and we can assemble the fiber
in fabrics and then when we mix that
with resin we can make all kinds of
lightweight high-performance stuff how
does that benefit the products that you
use it with well because it’s very
strong for its weight we can make parts
that are light that are very stiff
perfect for a lot of sporting goods or
for boats or for windmills and it’s
really the basic building block of
composite parts they’re huge price
difference yeah fiberglass is the also
the least expensive of the
high-performance fibers we have a yellow
stuff which is Arum it’s like Kevlar and
carbon which is black but those are much
more expensive fibers they’re even
lighter and they’re even stronger than
fiberglass but they do cost more the
ones that we have behind us what should
you look for well basically it’s how
much do you want to spend you can spend
a lot of money but it’s not really
linear and you know you start spending
much much more money for a little bit of
performance advantage what product
personally do you think that you should
go on the high end well I think carbon
is probably you know the sexiest of the
fibers out there all the high
performance bicycles now are carbon
fiber they’re so light and they’re so
efficient peddling they’re fast and they
look good yeah this kayak here is a bit
special it was designed as a showcase of
the materials that we make up Jamie
Martin’s the red that you see is a
polyester fiber it’s there to give a
little bit of color it’s also puncture
resistance the yellow strands is Kevlar
very lightweight very stiff and also
very impact resistant the black is
carbon so it provides a stiff structure
that will paddle efficiently and go
faster all these together end up being
very lightweight and
you know that’s that’s the really cool
thing about it thank you welcome
all have fiberglass in them along with
many other items that may surprise you
hi i’m veronica watchmojo.com and today
we’re going to take a closer look at
fiberglass from the fiber itself to the
finished product
we’re constantly hearing about
fiberglass but can you explain what that
really means
it’s basically sand that’s melted and
made into a fiber and the fiber is very
very fine and we can assemble the fiber
in fabrics and then when we mix that
with resin we can make all kinds of
lightweight high-performance stuff how
does that benefit the products that you
use it with well because it’s very
strong for its weight we can make parts
that are light that are very stiff
perfect for a lot of sporting goods or
for boats or for windmills and it’s
really the basic building block of
composite parts they’re huge price
difference yeah fiberglass is the also
the least expensive of the
high-performance fibers we have a yellow
stuff which is Arum it’s like Kevlar and
carbon which is black but those are much
more expensive fibers they’re even
lighter and they’re even stronger than
fiberglass but they do cost more the
ones that we have behind us what should
you look for well basically it’s how
much do you want to spend you can spend
a lot of money but it’s not really
linear and you know you start spending
much much more money for a little bit of
performance advantage what product
personally do you think that you should
go on the high end well I think carbon
is probably you know the sexiest of the
fibers out there all the high
performance bicycles now are carbon
fiber they’re so light and they’re so
efficient peddling they’re fast and they
look good yeah this kayak here is a bit
special it was designed as a showcase of
the materials that we make up Jamie
Martin’s the red that you see is a
polyester fiber it’s there to give a
little bit of color it’s also puncture
resistance the yellow strands is Kevlar
very lightweight very stiff and also
very impact resistant the black is
carbon so it provides a stiff structure
that will paddle efficiently and go
faster all these together end up being
very lightweight and
you know that’s that’s the really cool
thing about it thank you welcome
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