Name: KidWind Dowels - Pack of 100
SKU: VR129712
Price: 14.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

£14.00 ex VAT | £16.80 Inc VAT

These dowels are used for designing and testing wind turbine blades and fit into the Wind Turbine Hub.

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SKU: VR129712 Categories: KidWind, KidWind Blade Parts

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Description

Design and build your own blades from such materials as balsa wood chipboard sheets and attach them to these ¼-inch dowels with glue or tape, then test your wind turbine blades by fitting them to the KidWind Wind Turbine Hub.

These dowels, along with blade material, are the only “consumable” parts of a wind turbine blade design experiment.

The dowels are Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified and are supplied by Atlas Dowel.

Specification

Diameter: 0.25 in
Length: 5 in

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