composite chainplates

[Mudita]

Stumble - fair enough. It does surprise me that we're not seeing it more, though.

Ben - thank you for the response. Another question, if you have the patience:

You mentioned "a lot thicker" for the fiberglass than stainless steel. This rapidly gets outside of my comfort zone for calculations but here goes:
[list=1][*]The G10 (or FR4) is a continuous fiber sheet with a tensile strength of ~35k psi.[*]E-Glass Tensile strength is often shown at ~500k psi. I'm guessing the difference between this and the G10 spec is that the G10 is when the glass is actually laid up? Like a real world application?[*]316 Stainless Steel is also in the 500k psi range


But of course, the actual strength is all about the layup schedule and quality control. Can you give a idea of how much thicker I should go than the original chainplate? I'm guessing somewhere between 2x and 10x. But I'd like to get within an order of magnitude!