Just kicking off a project thread here. I happen to have a spare boom for a sailboat that I recently parted ways with recently. I was going to pitch it, but it occurred to me that it might be useful in the garage as a boom arm for power / air. It's already hollow, rigid, lightweight... seems like a natural fit.
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BOOM Project
- Thread starter capww8
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cvairwerks
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We've got some for power and Ethernet connections for the hangar desks. Under designed and overbuilt to compensate. Stupid connection boxes are about nose high on the average person and always in the wrong place. To move the desk, you have to disconnect everything on them all, then push a 400+ pound workstation out of the way to swing it back to the wall. To keep it from bending under it's own weight, they had to put a steel cable tie back on it, and anchor that 16 feet up the wall.
Lelandwelds
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Just kicking off a project thread here. I happen to have a spare boom for a sailboat that I recently parted ways with recently. I was going to pitch it, but it occurred to me that it might be useful in the garage as a boom arm for power / air. It's already hollow, rigid, lightweight... seems like a natural fit.
Carbon fiber? What is the core material? Aluminium tube? Extrusion? Only thing I know less about than airplanes is boats.
We've got some for power and Ethernet connections for the hangar desks. Under designed and overbuilt to compensate. Stupid connection boxes are about nose high on the average person and always in the wrong place. To move the desk, you have to disconnect everything on them all, then push a 400+ pound workstation out of the way to swing it back to the wall. To keep it from bending under it's own weight, they had to put a steel cable tie back on it, and anchor that 16 feet up the wall.
I am unsure what you are describing. (Desk as in pencil and paper? Floating desks?) How are you tying it in with a repurposed sailboat mast?
rburke65
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Sounds like a reasonable idea, but we will need pictures!
Sounds like a way to direct air line/power away from a wall through the mast.