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  1. SimonWakley

    Stiffness and strength of Panels for a camera crane arm

    Santa Monica California USA.
  2. SimonWakley

    Stiffness and strength of Panels for a camera crane arm

    I earlier wrote about replacing an aluminium box section arm with carbon fibre and I need to find someone/some company who can do an engineering study on my design and say if it is strong enough and as stiff as the old ali arm. I have data about some prefabbed panels, but I need somewhat...
  3. SimonWakley

    Panel versus Mold Construction for Longer Camera Crane Arm

    Hi, Thanks to everyone who posted a response - it's a great help as I have 0 experience in this field. (I will attempt to answer some of the questions that people have posed) The arm that is shown in the picture is a single welded fabrication from 5mm ali sheet. I am looking cut the nose...
  4. SimonWakley

    Panel versus Mold Construction for Longer Camera Crane Arm

    I am looking at replacing an existing aluminium camera crane arm (see photo) with carbon fibre box sections. Creating and using molds seems expensive and hard to get the high tolerances required. Cutting panels and edge bonding them and glueing/riveting to aluminium end pieces that would allow...
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