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The initiative is part of the GuitarTown Project. This project placed numerous composite material guitar sculptures in other cities already, like Los Angeles Nashville and London. Each time the fiberglass instruments were painted by artists, signed by celebrities and auctioned off for charity.
The guitars are 3 meters high and due to the lightweight characteristics of the fiberglass materials, they only weigh 23 kilos.
Source: JsOnline.com
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Why did the turtle cross the road? It was a roadside accident from a children`s comic book but with near deadly consequences. “Scorch” a young box turtle, had been crossing the road when he was hit by an oncoming car. When discovered the turtle was badly injured in the incident and had been attacked by dogs. However, the turtle has been given a new lease on life thanks to a local police officer, a clever vet and a new fiberglass shell.
The vet fashioned a new fiberglass shell for Scorch which, he says, will eventually be pushed off after he develops his own new shell. Scorch has been given a new home with a local teenage and the vet says he will live for another 40 years thanks in no small part his fiberglass shell. Get well soon Scorch from everyone at Parabeam!!
Source: USA Today
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Building any musical instrument by hand is a difficult process. Therefore the achievement of Ken Brown is all the more impressive because as a novice, he made this amazing carbon fiber violin on his own.
Taking him over 10 months, each Sunday Ken made detailed drawings of the violin. His plans were translated into plaster and fiberglass molds. It took him many hours of painstaking work to produce the best sounding violin plates. When he started fabricating the carbon fiber violin plates, Ken tested each revision’s “tap tones” until he go the right sound. Now we can enjoy Ken`s work and the sound of fiberglass composite material!
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Fiberglass news racks are becoming part of the street view in Manhattan. The Madison Avenue Business Improvement District ordered fiberglass racks 74″ wide, 40″ tall and 24″ deep. This award winning design by Karim Rashid, industrial designer known for his innovative and elegant concepts, adds a touch of elegance to New York`s streets.
These new fiberglass newsracks mean that the structural steel framework, normally required for street-side mounting, can be removed. Clutter along the sidewalk will be reduced and replaced by multiple, existing newspaper and magazine racks. Thanks to the fiberglass composite material these racks have a contemporary, elegant, yet functional design.
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Slovenia - The Sinus ultralight motorglider combines a true sense of a motorglider with unprecedented efficiency during powered and long-range cruise flights. With the Sinus you can take-off and land on very short runways, fly long distance cross-country and have fun gliding with a 27:1 gliding ratio… all in the same aircraft!
Pipistrel’s products are all known for being virtually maintenance free. The highest of technologies; composites like Parabeam® 3D Glass Fabrics and quality metal alloys, including Titanium and Magnesium, which are used on parts of the aircraft, ensure that the aircraft will last a lifetime in a like-new condition. And if you do not intend to fly for a while, you can disassemble the Sinus in only 15 minutes – all the controls are self-fitting, making this task as easy and care-free as possible.
Best fuel efficiency and best range
Due to the use of high-end lightweight materials like Parabeam® Sinus is simply the most efficient and economical light aircraft on the market! Given its super-low fuel consumption of less than 10 liters per hour (2.6 gph) at a high cruise speed of 200 km/h (110 kts), you can easily fly over 1000 kilometers (540 NM) already with standard 60 liter (16 gal.) fuel tanks. With optional long range (100 liters; 26 gal) fuel tanks your range with reserve goes beyond 1650 km (890 NM)!
The idea for the La Sagrada Família Cathedral in Barcelona was conceived in the late 1800s but today it is still under construction. Thanks to technological evolution, cathedral builders are using more advanced material than they did 100 years ago, now they are using fiberglass materials.
This fiberglass truck is known as ‘Santa’s sleigh’. The 1:4 scale RC fiberglass custom truck can perform any number of crazy tasks.
Luca Bordin’s is the modelmaker of this ¼ scale Peterbilt 359. He was inspired by a video of a man driving a model truck. He started off with the construction of the fiberglass material cabin with a wooden frame and attached it via springs to a twin-rail frame made of iron.
Bordin has also fabricated a fiberglass trailer that goes behind the tractor. The truck model is 2.10 meters in length and weighs 180 kg (397 pounds.) The project took him nine-months to complete.
Soure: Nitrobahn
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Since the 1950’s manufacturers started to produce pools made of fiberglass. In the decades that followed the composite material became one of the most popular materials for swimming pools.
The advantages of fiberglass pools over traditional pool materials, such as concrete, gunite or vinyl-lined pools, are numerous. Although pools made of fiberglass materials have high initial installation costs, over time this type of pool is the cheapest permanent option. Composite materials are very durable and low in maintenance. Besides, the fiber reinforced composites come in a wide variety of finishes, to adapt your pool to your preferences.
Source: PoolandSpa.com
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You may have seen a lot of fiberglass artworks already, without knowing you were looking at one. Today, a lot of modern artworks is made of fiberglass materials. Recently a giant composite material artwork mysteriously emerged on a Florida beach.
In November a huge Lego man statue appeared on a Florida Beach. The almost 2,5 meters high statue only weights 45 kilos and is made of fiberglass materials. Nobody knew where it came from, but as it appears the Lego man is part of a Dutch art project, called Ego Leonard.
Fiberglass materials are a popular material in modern works of art, as the material can be made to resemble many other materials, such as wood, stone, glass and even human skin. At the same time, the material weights less than traditional materials, is very strong and durable.
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Computer technology doesn’t stand still: every year manufacturers release faster, lighter and smaller laptops. The thinnest and lightest notebooks are called ‘ultrabooks’. Traditionally, ultrabooks used a lightweight metal case. However, this is going to change, as Acer and Asus announced to switch to fiberglass materials.
Ultrabooks present a challenge to computer manufacturers, as these computers are less than 20 mm thick and weigh less than 1.4 kg. The traditional material for these computer cases, thin metal panels, has two big disadvantages: it is expensive to process and difficult to produce for mass production.
Acer and Asus came with a solution for this problem: fiber reinforced composites. Composite materials make it possible to maintain the same weight and strength that is common for the thin metal panels. At the same time, the production costs for the fiberglass materials are significantly lower. Acer and Asus will release fiberglass ultrabooks in 2012.
Source: Hardware Info
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