Circular loom weaves carbon fibre pillars for Toyota Lexus

http://jalopnik.com/5393505/circular-loom-weaves-lexus-lfa-carbon-a+pillar

by suprgeek • 17 years ago

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by• 17 years ago

Google tells us there are more than two circular looms in the world

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=%22ci...

What is rare about it?

ynniv• 17 years ago

From the video, it appears that this loom has been specially constructed to keep the carbon fiber ribbon properly oriented as the spools move around.

drp• 17 years ago

In other news, rare space station orbits the Earth. Is 'rare' really the best word for something like this?

mastersenbie• 17 years ago

Aren't socks and pantyhose woven on circular looms?

Daniel_Newby• 17 years ago

And the braid of coax cables.

whye• 17 years ago

Toyota has had a long history with circular looms. Sakichi Toyoda invented the circular loom in 1906. The profits from his automatic loom business were used to start his son's automobile manufacturing company.

jrockway• 17 years ago

This article is interesting in that it shows the minimum amount of information required for something to be called an "article". Any less, and it would actually start to suck in nearby information and eventually explode.

scott_s• 17 years ago

The article about the car itself has substance: http://jalopnik.com/5388538/2011-lexus-lfa-first-drive

ComputerGuru• 17 years ago

Thanks for the link. I never truly appreciated how much hacking and pure engineering there was going on in the car market.

raintrees• 17 years ago

Any idea how big the resulting weaved product is? I am having difficulty discerning scale....

Circular loom weaves carbon fibre pillars for Toyota Lexus

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