How to make carbon fiber parts

How to make carbon fiber parts

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Science & Technology

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• carbon
• fiber
• sparts

[digitalmangaartist]

Worst background music for a documentary I've ever heard!

[Techible]

Carbon Fiber FTW! :P

[letemrip32]

DAMNIT I WAS GETTIN INTO THAT HAND DRYER!

[jabluszko313]

SYF

[circusboy90210]

carbon fiber is actually stronger than steel by 3 times or more, & about 100 times lighter.

[DallasAB]

@montalban02007 Humidity will have no affect with this process due to the vacuum pressure under the bag. Any moisture will boil off at vacuum pressures. Of course that takes a little while and the video appears to show them introducing resin immediately. Now, outside the bag there may be a problem with moisture getting into the resin - that can be removed by putting the resin under a vacuum before hand.

[DallasAB]

@Tekvicious This is VARTM (Vacuum Assisted Resin Transfer Molding) which is quite a bit different than Vacuum Bagging. Both methods compress the fiber stack to increase the fiber/resin ratio. Vacuum Bagging goes over a wet stack and forces out excess resin. VARTM pushes resin into a dry stack due to pressure difference between the resin pot and under the bag. :)

[Velotracer]

That was not epoxy resin they used, despite what the narrator stated, it was polyester resin. Polyester resin dries faster and is less expensive. Many manufacturers use it in place of epoxy resin. It is fine if you're going to paint the part afterward. But for bare carbon, polyester resin discolors in sunlight so epoxy is necessary.

[UTubeisSHIT523441]

@sakatis lol. and you got 'How to make your own fiber parts' in the suggestions..

[Tekvicious]

This process is commonly known as vacuum-bagging.

[montalban02007]

congratulation!! very clear tutorial.

I need to know more about humidity and temperature please.

Thanks

[sakatis]

i thought i could do it at home. fuck this