I've got a "little" experience when It comes to making fiberglass pieces...just curious how the carbon fiber process is done. What do I need? Any good links or info would be appreciated. I've got a couple parts I'd love to fab out of CF.

Sean

 

theres quite a large amt of info here in this forum if you would take the time to look for it

 

God dammit that's my bad...well, just for search reasons I'll include some of the good links I found.

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1033872

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=958902

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=983672

One question I do have:

I am looking to make things, such as cargo covers out of carbon fiber. I do not want to simply overlay the existing piece? Is there a way so that I can apply the fiber and the resin until it hardens, and then remove it from the piece I wish to copy? Possibly the use of a wax paper?

 

your gonna have to build a flange around the piece your going to copy, release the **** out of it with wax, spray release , whatever (except wax paper) and then apply your tooling gelcoat, layup your fiberglass, build a frame on it and wham-o you pull that whole thing off the piece your duplicating and your have a good mold....BTW, the larger the piece your copying the more it will be noticible due to shrinkage in ployester resin...the part you pull out of the mold you just made may not even fit. Either modify the master tool or use epoxy which has a very low shrinkage factor.

 

Ok...so i am going to have to make a mold of this piece. Is it best to create the mold from the bottom of the piece I am going to duplicate?!?! This way, when I lay the carbon fiber ontop of the mold, it will be nearly the same as the original piece.

Also, can I see some illistrations of this flange? I don't know if I am really following it.

 

Go to http://www.fiberglast.com and look throught their message fourms, lots of useful information.

 

to add, you might want to look into vaccusealing and baking your product, or use pre-impregnated fiber...
stan

 

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hmm...since I don't know what any of that means, looks like i've got some reading to do!

for the info guys.

 

carbon fiber...never heard of it

 

Another thing to be aware of is the temperature in which it'll be used. If it'll get hotter then the temperature at which it was cured, it will get soft again! This matters if it'll be used in either the engine compartment or have the sun beating on it. I just learned this myself