Good leading edge material but very hard to cut.
Easiest cutting was with a soldering iron. Then in today's thin layers you
would probably be left with a bump. After I stopped using it I found I
should have been cutting all the fabrics at 45 then I probably would have
felt differently about some
Mark Mech writes:
There was a similar fiber available in cloth from a British source,
I think it was called Dynel or something similar.
The home built boat community liked it for the final
layer on the bottom of the boat. It was so abrasion
resistant that you could beach the boats with very little
There was a similar fiber available in cloth from a British source,
I think it was called Dynel or something similar.
The home built boat community liked it for the final
layer on the bottom of the boat. It was so abrasion
resistant that you could beach the boats with very little
wear. This would
Dyneema is basically equivalent to Spectra fiber,
and yes, it has largely been rejected as a
material for fabric or linear composite
construction due to lousy bonding properties. It
can be an amazing fiber when used for rigging
(ropes, lines, etc), but even there, it has a
couple potential achilles
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