Can anyone give me a specific about how thick this material is? I’ts the stuff SolarComposites has listed below.
http://www.sollercomposites.com/composites/carbon%20fiber%20fabric.html
if you have any complex contours it SUCKS!!! It looks neat, but if you use it make sure you’re doing flat to contours spread over larger areas. I’m doing an overlay with it now on interior parts for a Scion TC, I’ll never take a job like that again.
which texilum is the softer more manageable material? I had a 1x1ft sample of it and it flowed and moved just like normal twill fiberglass. Was not stiff at all.
Some of the aluminumized eglass seems to be very stiff and difficult to work with, but the type we have been using works very well, and its possible to make fork slider protectors for off-road bikes with it.
yeah, the stuff i’m using is “aluminized” fiberglass and is very stiff and hard to work with. Not like regular fiberglass weave/twill i’ve worked with before.
If the material is stiff and difficult to work with, then you need to look for a different supplier. I have found French made silver Eglass is very stiff and difficult to work with, but Italian made material is fine.
hmm, how flexible and easily worked is the Hexcell brand Texilium?
try working with S2 tight plain weave glass!! stuff is crazy.
then again, the 30oz glass isn’t much better.
The Italian made eglass is fine to work with, and is easily available from a supplier here in the UK.
Fast…you really dont want to waste your time with the hexcell.
I ruin more parts than I make…I got all happy with that stuff orginaly and bought a complete roll of it.
There is silver eglass that classic sent me a sample of. Worked very much like carbon but the weave was a bit different.
Classicbike… supplier website?