If you are interested in using C-Flex and cannot get the material locally, then you should contact any Bruce Roberts Design office for supply details or contact: Seeman Fiberglass Inc. 6117 River Road Harahan LA 70122. USA.
C-Flex is a unidirectional fiberglass reinforcement that is manufactured in long (up to 250’ – 77m) x 12” (300 mm) wide planks in two grades. The heavier grade, CF65 is used for most applications including boats of a variety of sizes.
C-Flex contains rigid rods of solid GRP (much like fishing rods) on ½” (12 mm) centres which give it a self-supporting nature when spanning an open framework. The rods have a very high glass/resin ratio which means that they impart high strength qualities to the structure in the direction which they run. The spaces between the rigid rods are filled with unsaturated strands of continuous roving, and when saturated, these also become excellent unidirectional reinforcements. A light fiberglass cloth holds the material together and gives C-Flex the ability to follow the exact contours of most surfaces and to conform to compound curves such as boat hulls.
Besides the obvious advantage of being able to build your chosen design using the male mould technique, C-Flex affords the designer and builder the opportunity to save weight compared with the conventional single skin fibreglass laminate.
