Failure of a turbine blade....

[rossw]

Wow, forget carving them out of wood, or making them from fibreglass - I want a set of these!

[Wolvenar]

Wow nice.. I want a few sets of them too.

[Watt]

Nice, any ideas how the blade is put together? 

[kitestrings]

Darn, that's the a same method that I was going to use.  Well, that ones been done, I guess I'll just let mine run in a high wind and see how they do.

Thanks for sharing ross, that was fun, but hard to watch.

~kitestrings

[ghurd]

"Safety Glasses"?
G-

[Rover]

Hmm nice,
I tried epoxy impregnated cardboard under vacuum. I tried it so that no one else would, really that was my intent. 

 Nobody try the cardboard method, bad things happen (blades get water saturated, mill gets unbalanced, blades fall off, mill walks off tower searching for a smarter owner).

Rover

[hiker1]

rover........sounds like a few of my missadventures..  :}

[Rover]

I do a lot of things just to educate... I frequently do stuff that won't work, just for that reason

[MadScientist267]

That was awesome. 

Bet they don't fall into the "value menu" though. Yeah, right up there somewhere between Lambos and the hope diamond. 

And 25 years of service? Hell, I could see a lot more than that. Tranny, bearing, or alternator before a blade goes awry.

And its "natural" too? Crazy man, just crazy.

Wonder how heavy they are as compared to other blade materials...

Steve