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matt swindell
01-08-05, 07:42 PM
hey guys, i didnt know where else to ask this, so here goes. i was at the local co-op today and i got some "spokes" from a carbon fiber wheel, and i want to make something out of them, does anyone know if it is possible to bend these "spokes", and if so how? thanks alot! matt

matt swindell
01-12-05, 05:25 PM
doesnt anyone know how to work with already "sealed" carbon fiber?
srf
01-12-05, 08:11 PM
Are you talking about pre-preg carbon fibre, or carbon fibre that's already set (dry)? Cured carbon fibre isn't going to bend much before it shatters...

matt swindell
01-12-05, 08:46 PM
thats the answer i was looking to here, i figured as much, but i didnt know if i heated it or something if it would
slvoid
01-12-05, 09:22 PM
thats the answer i was looking to here, i figured as much, but i didnt know if i heated it or something if it would

You can burn it...
Waldo
01-13-05, 04:01 PM
carbon fiber!=ductile
matt swindell
01-13-05, 04:04 PM
carbon fiber!=ductile
how do you figure? or are you talking about before it is sealed?
Waldo
01-13-05, 07:16 PM
it's not ductile. brittle, hence the catastropihic failure mode without deformation beforehand.
perhaps you didn't catch the meaning of the ! in front of the =.
phantomcow2
01-13-05, 08:02 PM
make a christmas ornament, not much else you can do. Carbon is not like steel