Vol. 09: Working with Carbon Fiber

Form, lay up, and cure your own high-performance composites.

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Diagram of Mandrel dimensions with an iPod comparison can be found here.

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How about for a 5G iPod
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Anyone know what kind of sleeve to use for a 5g ipod, anything to look out for?
Posted by Jmoo on March 11, 2007 at 18:22:33 Pacific Time

How about for a 5G iPod
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I had the same question... so this is what i've come up with... please feel free to dispute or agree...

Make: uses a 1.5" sleeve for the ipod nano.
both Mini generations have a ~5.08" circumference and the diameter calculates to ~1.6"
so there's a tenth of an inch stretch for the first sheath and then a second is applied later.

For the 5.5g 30GB iPod Video the circumference is ~5.66" and the diameter calculates to ~1.8"

If you used the 1.5" diameter carbon fiber sleeve you'd be stretching it by 3 tenths for the first sheath and you'd still have to get one more sheath on there.

So I would suggest buying the highest density 1.5" tubing you can find since I haven't found 1.75" tubing and 2" tubing would be too loose to use.

These are the sites I used:
iPod Mini Specs
5.5g iPod Specs
Circumference Calculator
Posted by openImperfection on May 01, 2007 at 20:39:31 Pacific Time

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I just checked out Soller Composites and they list Min. and Max diameters for each sleve...

The 1.5" Sleeves only reach a max of 1.75" Diameter. So I won't be trying to stretch one to 1.8"... I believe once you put the mandrel inside a 2" Sleeve you'd be able to pull both ends of the Sleeve apart to reduce the diameter. This may make the weave pattern look a little aesthetically funny though.
Posted by openImperfection on May 01, 2007 at 20:57:25 Pacific Time

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Apple supplies technical drawings of every ipod.

Check it out Here
Posted by openImperfection on May 02, 2007 at 09:42:23 Pacific Time

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