Making your own Carbon Fiber Angle

[lonewolf]

Great write up Darrin thanks......I should mention that the dust from cutting and sang c/f or any of the clothes we uses are considered an irritant and some very dangerous I cant recomend enough to use proper ventilation and at least a dust mask when cutting or sanding.....The safty guy in me was forced to at least mention it... just like the dust from working props is also dangerous....But again thanks a bunch for the write up!!!!

[Hydrozz]

For 5 years I worked at a facility that fabricated using various resins and materials. We used acrylic resin when laminating with carbon fiber. This was under a vacuum using PVA bags. Cutting out with a reciprocating saw and finish grinding and buffing edges smooth. Yes use a respirator and coveralls if you have them. Sometimes grinding it would spark, thats how hard it would get. Never had a problem with anything breaking. Watch your layup,( how you lay the carbon fiber on) and to strengthen it up, between layers of carbon, use a strip of felt or simular ( this soaks up resin and compresses easily).