How to Use Flax Fibre in Composites; Performance and Processing

I wish you had a presence in the USA. You guys have everything.....including the elusive KNOWLEDGE that can be so painful and expensive to acquire without excellent instruction. Amazing work.

The only problem with this channel is that it’s too long between new videos being released. We want more!

I don't even do anything with composites, but I always watch these videos and it makes me want to have a go.

Fun fact: Flax is a very, very low-stretch fiber; it's in the same class as the aramids, at least as far as stretch is concerned. Until the advent of Dacron and the other high-tech fabrics, the very best racing sails were made of Irish linen.

I've got a warehouse of extra flax fibre I was going to have shipped to the dump, I caught this video just in time! Thanks for the save, Easy Composites Ltd.

as someone who just finished a semester of material science with a large segment on natural fibre this channel is a goldmine

HUGE bonus points for saying "damping" and not "dampening"! I consider that a sure sign of competence :) (Of course I suppose you could say "dampening the flax with resin results in a strong part with great damping" and be clever too.)

Great information about flax fiber! Now Im thinking about where might it come in handy in an aerospace application…🤔😁

If this isn't THE COOLEST way of manufacturing parts then I haven't seen it in my 42 years 😎 Absolutely brilliant video as always - thank you.!

Fantastic explanation of flax fiber vacuum bagging and resin infusion.

Very informative. It's first time i'm watching flax fibre composites.

I love this channel for the techniques they share. Gives you all sorts of DIY ideas.

i would love classes like this near me. Ive done intro to composites and loved it. just 1 day of composites knowledge and hands on with kevlar and CF

Very educational, Paul. You make it to look easy.

Flax Micarta is my favorite material of all time, thanks for this video!

This channel is a goldmine of invaluable industry specific advice and data which would otherwise be virtually impossible to obtain. Indeed, many companies would treat this information as trade secrets and intellectual property, and guard it jealously. So I’m hugely grateful to you for sharing it. You obviously sharing your trade secrets because there’s a huge and developing market for this technology which is likely to attract more and more funding, due to its supposed environmental credentials. However, the hugely increased time and labour factors involved here, as well as the added real costs, tends to mean the genuine advantages and therefore benefits, are always going to be somewhat limited, as you alluded to here, for which I’m also grateful. That’s an indication of genuine integrity. And as much as I personally love that a natural fibre is being used to manufacture items, I’m also aware that if suitable growing land is utilised to produce flax crops, at the cost of food crops, and without addressing these issues, ultimately this is only going to be harmful to humans. Humans SHOULD matter more than anything else, even the environment. But that’s not the case when it comes to the psychopathic elites and the powers that shouldn’t be. The climate agenda and the demonisation of carbon, and the false apportioning of blame, both upon humans and even of course carbon itself, is very very dangerous. Trillions of dollars are being thrown at a fake problem, whilst humans are actually starving, and nothing of substance is being done to address that problem. We need to find a balance. We also need to stop pretending that it’s okay to play pretend games with such hugely important issues, for example fake discovery of ‘unintended consequences’ sometime down the line. Now I’m going to channel my inner Steve Jobs to figure out how to use this material - in a genuinely sustainable manner. 🧐😎😜 Thank you again for sharing Peace

Looking forward to the future of flax composites. Thanks for making a video on them

Very informative as always. You somehow always manage to make a video about a dry topic entertaining and fly by in what feels like half its runtime. I'd love to see some content about Flax as core material in the future ... as well as 3d printed parts as cores for complex shapes.

As always your videos are top quality, very inspiring and look like it can be done really easy. So pro and your skill are impeccable. I really appreciate your advice about reusing not only to be green but also to save some money and most of all going as GREEN as possible.

This is great, I've never seen a product using this. I can't wait to see some.