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Old Nov 21, 2011 | 02:02 PM
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Default Making CF pieces

I know this is going to be fairly difficult to do more than likely to start out with, but I want to give it a go. I'd like to start making molds of pieces of my sol and make some CF pieces for myself. I found carbonmods.com but they are in the UK and shipping is a little pricey from UK to US. Anyone know of any other websites that offer a complete kit to make molds, then makes CF pieces out of the mold? I am not interested in "skinning" the parts I want to actually make the pieces out of CF. I am not talking pieces like hoods trunks targas, I am going to buy those.

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Old Nov 21, 2011 | 02:36 PM
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Default Re: Making CF pieces

look for a TAP Plastics near u ( http://www.tapplastics.com/ )
first use fiberglass to make ur mold than start making ur pieces using CF
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Old Nov 21, 2011 | 02:55 PM
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Was gonna use more along the lines The gel the carbonmods uses along with molding clay. How would you just make the mold out of fiberglass same method? Just need to be sure to use the releasing agent/wax?
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Old Nov 23, 2011 | 05:14 PM
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Default Re: Making CF pieces

If you look on youtube there are videos that show you how to vacuum form. Instead of using plastic use the CF...Anyone know if that would work?
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Old Nov 23, 2011 | 05:16 PM
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I have seen those and doesn't seem like something I wanna do. I prefer to do a mold of the piece.
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Old Nov 23, 2011 | 05:32 PM
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Default Re: Making CF pieces

Originally Posted by thatcivic96
Was gonna use more along the lines The gel the carbonmods uses along with molding clay. How would you just make the mold out of fiberglass same method? Just need to be sure to use the releasing agent/wax?
yeah
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Old Nov 23, 2011 | 05:45 PM
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Originally Posted by thatcivic96
I have seen those and doesn't seem like something I wanna do. I prefer to do a mold of the piece.

you could vacuum form the piece and use that as a mold...
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Old Nov 24, 2011 | 02:58 PM
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are you wanting to make interior parts or what? making molded interior parts is't to rewarding unless u like spending lots of time and money on a part that will weigh slightly less than the plastic you are replacing. It is very hard to get parts to fit correctly, thats why a ton of time and tooling goes into making them in the first place.
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