Carbon Fibre Wood Laminate

To become the strong light composite material industries love.

Carbon fibre wood laminate.

This makes a very nice looking and strong panel yet is very thin. The amazing thing with peel ply is you can pour resin on top of it and roll or squeegee to saturate the carbon fiber more if needed. Laminating carbon fiber is no different than fiberglass or other reinforcements. As for applying the carbon fiber and resin.

First wrap the shaft with the fiber and cut it to size. If it is a part intended for its appearance and free of gel coat use a high quality polyester or epoxy resin. Flatten the carbon to the deck and use the roller to get the air bubbles out of the material. Try to keep it as straight as possible lengthwise to the deck.

Carbon fiber laminating aka skinning is a great cost alternative to add carbon fiber elements to your vehicle. If you want to learn more about epoxy products excellent for use in laminating with carbon fiber check out cpd 4222a and view the technical data bulletin here. Creating a one off part can be quite expensive to design mold and produce in carbon fiber. More and more carbon fiber is being used not only as a structural but a cosmetic element in todays high end cars.

But carbon fibre has a dirty secret. It is capable of holding a lot of load when suspended across a frame for instance a seat bottom. For pure shootability it is a hard stock to beat at any price. Practice learning how to laminate carbon fiber with fiberglass which is a fraction of the cost.

Lay the carbon fiber cloth onto the wetted deck. It is identical in form to our ground breaking m50 carbon fiber layup stocks with the warmth and beauty of wood. Excess waste for landfill. With everything pre cut you can start layering the resin and carbon.

You will want more that 1 layer and you will want to try to offset the weave on each layer for more strength. In our belite ultralight aircraft we occasionally make and use a carbon fiber plywood laminate. The hi tech material is wasteful to produce and difficult to recycle. Carbon fiber sheets laminates we are a leading manufacturer of high quality sandwich panels and laminates manufactured in a range of composite materials including structural foam honeycomb carbon fiber and fiberglass.

An extra set of hands is helpful with this.