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A few, actually!
My team laid up 2 more center parts, however neither of them turned out due to a vacuum problem with the autoclave that we discovered a bit too late. Because each part uses so much material, we ran out of carbon prepreg and so were unable to get a totally finished production part.
So, for our final part to be graded we had to use the testing part that was shown in the pictures above. The problem with this was that the front face was broken from the tensile testing. However, I fabricated a steel plate to fit between the winch and the composite part to redistribute the loading to the outer part of the front face. This seemed to work well after a bit of real-world testing.
The XRC-8 that was donated by Smittybilt has been great so far, and was very easy to install.
I hope to have some pictures of the final setup and some action shots uploaded soon, but today is graduation so I will be busy with family stuff for awhile!
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84 4Runner SR5
22R, 5spd, 31" BFG ATs,custom bumpers
08 FJ Cruiser
Sandstorm, 6MT, All-Terrain Package, Rock Rails, BFG A/Ts
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