RE: Kevlar

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi Gary,

OK!  I ordered up a sheet of Kevlar! :o)))

Just want to see what it is like and could be used for.  It can take a lot 
of heat and is an insulator.  Might make a very thin coil form 
material...  Just have to play with it and see if it is useful to us.

Cheers,

         Terry

At 07:15 PM 2/1/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>For crying out loud guys, get real.  In body armor, a flexible fabric is 
>required.  For shielding a rotary gap, a rigid material that you can bolt 
>down is what you need.  Think wood, plywood, Lexan.  Particularly with the 
>use of the very low mass propeller gap that started this thread, almost 
>anything will do.
>
>Gary Lau
>MA, USA