<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>You right on cheapest, easiest. Lightest is still carbon laminated 2 lb honeycomb. Next lightest is carbon laminated cross grained balsa, about 6 lb stock, which is actually stronger than the honeycomb. But both of these solutions cost 5x what the balsa -ply composite costs. I make the carbon-balsa for firewalls in my gas planes. The 1/4" is plenty strong for 60cc engines.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">The carbon laminates are available from ACP. For those that still make some stuff for your models, I've written about this type of lamination before but might be worth repeating....use a food saver vacuum bag. The honeycomb will require support plates, both sides. I use plexiglass from Home Depot, waxed with PartAll. Balsa needs nuthin.<br><br><br><div>Matt Kebabjian</div><div><br></div></div><div><br>On Jan 26, 2016, at 5:07 PM, Atwood, Mark via NSRCA-discussion <<a href="mailto:nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org">nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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For me, the lightest, cheapest, strongest, and easiest to make servo tray has always been 1/8” balsa, laminated with 1/64” ply on both sides, with small 1/32” ply doublers where the servo screws go. It’s 2 minutes to laminate a piece of balsa with thick CA
and hand pressure. never splits, easy to cut and shape, torsionally strong and stable, extremely light and very very inexpensive.
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