Welcome to The FlyingGiants! - please login or click this bar to join our community...

Infinite Menus, Copyright 2006, OpenCube Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Please support our sponsors
   

Welcome to The FlyingGiants Community! We're all about fun, and inside you'll find the greatest, friendliest, and most helpful group of people around! If this is your first time visiting, please check out site, and click here to sign up! We hope to see you soon!!

Go Back   FlyingGiants Forums > Giant Scale Discussions > Building, Repair, and The Details - Tips and Tricks


Building, Repair, and The Details - Tips and Tricks Talk about building, painting, covering, repairing, and tricking out your models.

Support our Sponsors

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 10-02-2007, 07:45 PM   #1 (permalink)
Uber Contributer
 
hipollito's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Mexico
Posts: 173
hipollito is offline
Default carbon fiber parts

hay guys,, quick queston...I am making some parts out of carbon fiber for school, some of them need high mechanical properties and other donīt, so can I used polyester resin for the parts that do no need high mechanical properties???? Im using epoxy for the ones that need it.

Any suggestions???? thanks!
cheers
  Reply With Quote
Old 12-30-2007, 08:41 PM   #2 (permalink)
Bad-ass Super Contributer!
 
wc524's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Jacksonville, FL
Age: 23
Posts: 244
wc524 is offline
Default Re: carbon fiber parts

what type of part are you talking about? Could you lay up some CF over foam for the parts that dont need high strength? For the other high stress parts I would make a mold of some kind and use a good epoxy like West Systems.
  Reply With Quote
Reply

Bookmarks


Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
 
Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are Off
Pingbacks are Off
Refbacks are Off

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Carbon Fiber Wing Tube? 3D-Seth General Discussions - Giant Scale 18 02-24-2008 10:55 PM
Carbon Fiber Parts in Europe HarisH Building, Repair, and The Details - Tips and Tricks 2 05-03-2007 04:21 PM
Carbon Fiber Throttle Control rod? wttiger42 Building, Repair, and The Details - Tips and Tricks 8 09-14-2006 05:08 PM
LETS SEE YOUR CARBON FIBER king160woody The Clubhouse! 13 08-12-2006 05:43 PM
Precision Aerobatics Electric Shock NEW PLANE!!!! aerofundan What's Hot! 19 08-02-2006 10:58 PM


All times are GMT -5. The time now is 09:45 PM.


  Sitemap :: Contact Us :: Community :: News :: Videos and Photos :: About Us
FlyingGiants, and The Leading Edge, are trademarks of RCGroups.com LLC. All content (c). All rights reserved.
Please view our disclaimer

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128

Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.7.3
Copyright ©2000 - 2008, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
SEO by vBSEO 3.2.0