yayopwrcrx

and trance thanks bro i'll email him in a while-whats your real name so he knows i know you. or should i just say my buddy trance told me to hit you up :P

Reddy

Without a vacuum bagger its tough to get the carbon to stick to whatever your trying to cover so you gotta keep playing with it till it gets tacky enough to attach to the piece. You lay the carbon on the piece than you paint on the resin. After it dries it'll look like complete ----. Than you'll need to add clearcoat, sometimes a couple coats and than you'll need to sand in order for it to look good. After you sand it you'll need to polish it for it to look good. Its alot of work and there's alot of stuff you need to do to get it to look good so good luck.

tranceminister

yayo my names Steve. I Informed him you'd be contacting him sometime so he knows, lol

yayopwrcrx

alright nice thank you guys...
whitey you ever use gel coating? and just pull the CF piece off of the ---- you molded it around?

Reddy

In order to pull the piece off the original mold you need to buy ---- called "mold release" and from my experience the original always kinda gets fucked up cause there is always a little bit of resin that won't com off. I did a carbon fiber piece of the inbetween the taillights and to this day I still have yellowish resin around the edges of it.



And no I never used gel coating, thats more for boats.

iceknight24

All cf is fiberglass with a black dye addit to the resin.
To make a cf part u need the black dye and fiberglass kit and a mold to copy from. The places that make the parts spray the mold with resin then add the cloth then they spray the riped mat and resin mix to make it thick.
That is how they make cf.

Reddy

My head almost exploded from reading this cause it is as wrong as you can get. Carbon Fiber is NOT fiberglass, there's a huge huge huge difference and I don't feel like explaining the whole engineering aspect behind it so just believe me that they are completely different

iceknight24

my friend works at a boat molding company he said that is how they make it. no one said there is only one way to make cf.

Reddy

If Carbon Fiber is the same as fiberglass than Titanium is the exact same thing as copper. Your comparing apples to oranges. True carbon fiber is a cloth and fiberglass comes in a cloth but thats the only thing the same. They are both different materials and carbon weaves are alot different than fiberglass.


Again, they are not the same

iceknight24

hay like i said that is how they make it. there is many ways to make it. like i said that is one way they make it.
like they say there is more then one way to skin a cat.