Supplier you use in US?

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#1

I am right now educating myself on composites and techniques through numerous books, publications, Web sites, published reports so I am not only making carbon fiber or other composite parts but know why and what to use. I am also learning and planning out my equipment purchasing and fabrication. I will be an automotive market based on custom created parts for muscle cars and hot rods mainly. I am wonder what supplier you use and why? Why could be prices, customer service, product quality, or even support. Either way I am interested in this.

I did read the supplier list

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#2

What materials are you looking for? For carbon fabric www.sollercomposites.com is usually the best bet. For vacuum consumables, I find www.fiberglassupply.com to have good prices, however they don’t carry that many product lines. Few retail vendors carry large ranges of resins, so you’ll be limited in that aspect based on your preferred resin. Once you decide on one then your next step will be deciding who to buy from. For everything else, there’s amazon (of course).

#3

Mertons fiberglass is in MA I used him for small quantity orders for yearss. Same day shipping and I’m outta pa had it the next day. For bulk I use northamerican composites. Their is most likely a rep that’s in your area.

#4

Good to know thanks I’m in eastern NY so Merton is good to know about

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#5

Might I humbly suggest you give us a try? www.avtcomposites.com. :slight_smile:

#6

Sollarcomposites, uscomposites, fiberglasssupply are the big three I recommend. I’d also recommend using fiberglass coatings incorporated, (FGCI.com) but that company is increasingly getting worse due to the upper level management. The Dania Beach location in South Florida is like a revolving door for the employees. Every few months new employees come and go. As of recent their floor sales manager, (one of the most respected in the company and most helpful) moved to another job. Their former Operations manager who was the most knowledgeable person in the company by far, (degrees and whatnot in composites) is now a salesman due to company politics, (from what I hear) and everybody I have spoken to over the past two years that isn’t upper level management hates their job there. Unmotivated employees that feel like they are only employees suck and don’t work hard unless you are good friends of theirs. And being good friends of theirs means you still pay slightly above market value for most of their products. $95 for Duratech clear instead of $155, $40 for Silmar 249 instead of $79… No discounts on their $25 cans of super77, (but still better than Fiberglasts unbudgable price of $29).

Sorry for the rant, I’ve just been itching to post a review on that company. I still buy from them but only for the next two weeks I’m in Florida. I only buy from them because they are conveniently on the way to my shop. If it wasn’t for that, I wouldn’t do any business with them at all.

I mentioned Fiberglast. If anybody thinks of buying from them, dont… They have the most obscene, ridiculous, gauging prices on the interwebz for composite supplies. For example, Super77 $29.95, (Walmart, home depot, any local hardware store $8.99 - $10.99), 1 yard 5.7oz 2x2 carbon fiber $59.95, (us composites $34.99 I believe for the same quality), Big gel coat harbor freight gun $118.75 on sale for $94.95, (Harbor freight $16.99 although I do believe the Harbor freight tip is about .4mm smaller, but there are rebuild kits for a few tens of dollars online), 1 yard of flow media $9.99 anywhere else it should be half if that… I hate to continue on, but I equally dislike the fact that its this easy for some companies to take advantage of folks that just want to practice or learn composites work…

Aaaannnd done.

#7

I did notice fiberglast.com to be informative and expensive socks they prey on beginners looking for knowledge

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