Date: 11/26/2009, 11:33 pm
That S fiber stuff looks to be the same stuff as Spectra rope. (But I could be mistaken.)
Wasn't someone talking about it here, or on the QUSA forum? Questioning how well it would wet out in an epoxy application...
I think the consensus was that it wouldn't be tightly woven enough for SOF construction.
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