Carbon fiber piping

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#41

wouldnt the glad wrap (saran wrap) leave a wrinkled finish on the inside of the pipe??

Ive been thinking about gettin pvc pipe then coating it with release agent and wraping the cf cloth tightly around that (there were some guys on fibreglast doing it for mountain bikes, they were using foam cores and wrapping the cf and wetting it down) then bag it so its nice and uniform and strong…then using the cf sleeve for the outer ‘eye candy’ …

Of course this is only good for straight pieces of pipe…if it even works lol

#42

You can get bends in PVC piping just like what use do with thin gage steel tubing in race car fabbing:
plug one end of the pipe, pack the pipe with sand, heat (do not over heat OVC as it will give off toxic fumes) in the area you need the bend 360 degree around, find a telephone pole with a buddy or fence or anything with maybe 2x HD tubes and place in between them and bend. The sand inside keeps it from kinking and gives.

#43

I tried to do that and couldn’t get it to work… what are you using to heat with?

#44

What schedule of PVC are you trying with this technique? The thinner the better…

You could use an oven, but an oven only for plastics use, not your kitchen one… :shock:

#45

I will try it with a thinner piece of pipe… iirc the stuff I had was rather thick(didn’t see any other thicknesses at homedepot, but then I wasn’t searching that much)… I was trying to heat it with a heat gun… hit the general area I wanted to bend… don’t have an extra oven laying around

#46

lol…I tried that the other day jus for shits n giggles…

It worked…but it didnt lol…

I was using a heat gun, so tryin to hold everything and get heat around the whole pipe didnt work, it got overheated in some parts in saged and didnt give a uniform bend…

Use help if you have it! The more hands the better lol

BUT it does work!

PS…any comments on my post above?? Would that work you think??

#47

Go to a thrift shop, get a working toster oven and take the back side out for thru oven…

I have a couple laying around my shop to use to heat things from bearings to whatever, but no food goes in them any more!

#48

well, I tried it with the bike tire this week…

and had very little success…

the bike tire, despite me putting several layers of mold release on… didn’t release…

it also didn’t blow up all the way inside the mold, despite on the ends where the bike tire being out, it being at least 2 inches larger than the diameter of the mold…