kevlar body?

[mini rc man]

does anyone know of anyone who made a kevlar body and chassis?
if anyone dont know wha tkevlar is, its the hardest and infammable plastic

[PTink]

well if i know what you are talking about...
we were just working on the high milage vehicle at school and the kevlar that we were using was in woven form, just like carbon fiber b4 the resin is applied. but back to the point, i was thinking of trying to make a bit body out of carbon fiber and the problem that came to mind would be the releave cuts. Try wraping a ball with paper and you should end up cutting little slits so you can fold the paper over the ball. This is what you would have to do to make the complex curves of the bit body and it would be really small. It could be possible, but in the end it might not really be worth it.

[Zephyranthes]

Lol would it be bullet proof?

[mini rc man]

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yea it would because u can make one zip zap size and put a bit PCB in and put like a battery for ignition and have engine insideand that would kick ass and the body wont melt from extreme engine temperatures

[mini rc man]

Originally posted by Zephyranthes
Lol would it be bullet proof?

if the body is thick enouf then yea of course

[Spanky]

well thickness might work, the bulletproof quality of kevlar usually comes from layers of the material. kinda like plywood. you could say it was BB proof, which for a bit would be like a cannon ball! lol

[ZeroTT]

Yeah, I think the inherent problem with kevlar or carbon fiber is how to mold it into the right shape. Cutting leaves rough edges in both materials, I believe. It can be molded as a single piece, but would be expensive...as it's so small and complicated.

Oh, and just for reference, as Dr. Nick so succinctly put it:

"Inflammable means flammable?"

Kevlar is non-flammable...

[PTink]

if i understand you correctly then you guys are saying that the kevlar would be in its hard plastic form. the kevlar in bullet proof vests is actually kept in its woven sorft form, and not in the hard resen set form. feel free to correct me cuz i just started working with it.

[mini rc man]

i have no experiance with kevlar ..... i just readed about it

whenu said your working with it like wut are u doing making bit bodys out of it?

[PTink]

ok so just to clairify. so i was working on the project car in my high school engineering club when i thought that a carbon fiber or kevlar bit body would be cool. wanna see the car. www.imagine101.com that is my high school and i have Mr. Al Gomez as a teacher, he is great. but anyway, to make the car very very very light (8lbs without the engine and the driver) and yet still have a very high tensile strength, so there is less enery lost due to body flex, we use 2 layers of woven (like cloth) kevlar with a layer of carbon fiber over it. the kevlar makes the car very strong and with the carbon fiber really light and cool looking. it was something that i just got into so i just wanted to help ya guys out, we actually set the fiber and put the resin on then put the parts in a huge vacumm bag and let it set overnight, stadard prosiedure for f1 cars but they have huge vacumm rooms that bake it too. so thats where im coming from

[d00kie]

Bullet proof, basically if the aim is to have a bulletproof R/C (for those who live in the slums and don't want a bullet to hit their bit lol)

A bullet to the kevlar bit will still destroy it because the internal structure will have to brace the impact of the shell, kevlar is bulletproof material because it will stop the bullet at it's tracks, but will not stop the shock. So without bulletproof protection, the bullet will go through your body, causing a more serious injury compared to the bullet going no further than the kevlar but the shock will still be excrutiating.

But then, kevlar will not stop the knife, which in most countries, law enforcement personnel are most likely to be attacked by one; thus developments of light chain-mail type armor that traps the blade from causing serious harm are on the way.

[PTink]

i saw on this one show that the guy who designed the kevlar vest is also developing a knife proof vest, it you bruse you like a mother but the point of the knife would not be able to break the skin.

[mini rc man]

Originally posted by d00kie
Bullet proof, basically if the aim is to have a bulletproof R/C (for those who live in the slums and don't want a bullet to hit their bit lol)

HAHAHAHA lol

its just da ghetto get shot randomly

[InGaN]

Originally posted by mini rc man
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yea it would because u can make one zip zap size and put a bit PCB in and put like a battery for ignition and have engine insideand that would kick ass and the body wont melt from extreme engine temperatures

Wait, are you making it rocket engine powered or just from a regular motor? A kevlar body might be non-flammable but the rest of the car isn't!

[mini rc man]

lol

the rest isnt flammable its just meltable

and u can make like unflammable glue that hold together the steering wires and then make sutom pcb out of kevlar and tires would be like, well i have no idea they would just melt and everything that can be made out of kevlar just put it there


then u can go like super fast on a gas engine and that would be fukin tight