Seat Action!!!

The frame and balsa (I swapped the insulation spacer for a larger piece)

Progress continues and the deadlines keep coming. We have decided it is time to put the house up for sale in anticipation of our posting message which should have already arrived and will hopefully be here anyday. With the house up for sale my "workshop" is going to have to be put away everyday. A hassle and a time consumer, but necessary to sell the house.

I have struggled significantly to come up with a good seat design that is both comfortable and buildable by a fabricator (hacker) of my caliber. This hasn't been easy and I have decided that the first version won't likely be comfortable but that I will hopefully be able to modify or add on to give it some curves to fit my cheeks and lumbar once I try it out. Once again, this is just theory. I know a good seat needs to have a "horn" in the centre of the seat area and some other shape to hold you in place.  I have also learned that it is very difficult to create that shape without some sort of 3d modelling clay or something along those lines. My theory is to add some foam once I am sitting on the seat. I will hopefully be able to carve and shape the foam to a decent form and then cover it with a layer of CF to create a masterpiece seat.

The balsa laying on the frames and posterboard

The parts, pretty flimsy by themselves

Profile of the seat.

Seat with 2 layers of CF, pink peel ply and custom clamp system (rice and flower in ziploc)

All this being said, the seat is another product of my own creativity. I couldn't find any info on how to build a seat similar to what I had in mind so I created my own concept. I already had the seat frames built from quite a few weeks ago. The plan was to lay balsa strips across the frames and then lay the CF sheet over the balsa. Cover the whole thing in a nice layer of CF and repeat. In order to keep the balsa flat I needed to add in a piece of poster board between the balsa and the frames. It all went as planned and this evening I just finished laying on the two layers of CF. So far so good.