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Originally Posted by javadog
.001mm?
How?
That’s got to be something around 5% of the dimensional tolerances I’m used to seeing for carbon fiber cloth.
I was going to say 4%, but I rounded it up, just to be charitable.
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Did mention, I'm not right in the head
To the nearest 0.001mm is the theoretically correct calculated thickness of the pre-impregnated cloth, these thicknesses are usually supplied by our material suppliers
There is of course a deviation from this due to the tolerances of the dry fabric, resin % content, resin density, cure pressure, mould expansion, quantity of plies, fibre orientation/drapeability etc etc
Most F1 composite components are extremely 3D shaped and relatively complex compared to aerospace parts so every little bit counts. Also I need all the help I can get as I like to push stuff to the extreme
As an example to explain the complexity and why I work to the tolerances I do I wrote a detailed description of a part I've done without naming the part but I realised Won might be able to work out what it was so deleted it
I'd love to show pictures of the type of parts we do as some of the stuff is way out there but I can't
sorry!