Week 8: Composites

Beginner tennis racket from scratch

Here is the sequence:

Tennis racket cad modeling

End Milling setup with 1/2 inch ball end mill. I followed Sam's example from last year.

I milled the two symmetric halves and glued them together using gorilla glue. This is just a shape layer, with little strength. Some of the parts are broken actually. We'll see how strong it is once the composite is laid on top of this

And we have a tennis racket base!

Burlac epoxy composite