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Originally Posted by LEAKYSEALS951
Carbon Fiber update 7/20/23.
Carbon on. This stuff lays finicky as all getout. Not as sexy as I intended with carbon fiber weave orientation, but I realized this is tricky territory. The CF immediately starts to separate. Needs to be canted against itself for strength and not to fall apart on the spot. I am not a carbon fiber expert. This does not behave like your father's fiberglass. I am abandoning any future submarine projects. I should have watched youtube videos before starting. I should have had a way to compress the CF against the frame. But- this is not really structural, it's more protection. Assuming the epoxy dries (it's slowly getting tacky- so hopeful...) I will sand this flush and be done with it. It does barely pass muster with my "looks good enough to post to ppot" criteria, although I am not happy with the lay of the weave across the bb. At that point, it was a matter of survival, not being sexy.  I do think the final sanded portion will provide some meat for future chain drops and give me confidence to bomb doubletrack. That's about 3 layers thick at the areas trashed by chainsuck. |
To compress the cf, lay it on and while wet wrap the area as tightly as possible with blue masking tape. Really. It'll provide compression and comes off easily, more or less, after the resin cures.