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Exocet	Exocet posted 9 Years Ago HOT Topic Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 12, Visits: 119	hi, looking for some advice. I want to make some carbon fibre support legs for my car rear spoiler. The legs need to be approx 1 metre long, 200mm at the bottom tapering to 100mm at the top where it joints the spoiler. I have a vacuum infusion set up. Ideally I want both sides with a gloss finish. My plan was to use the following stack 200 grm 2/2 twill C/F and 2mm Soric as follows; C/F, soric, C/F, soric, C/F, soric, C/F All sandwiched between two pieces of glass (in order to get a gloss finish on both sides) This should end up about 5-6mm thick. Qus 1 do you think this would be strong enough? Qus 2 how can get radius on the leading edge / not end up with the exposed soric the the edges. Many thanks.
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Warren (Staff)	Warren (Staff) posted 9 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Administrators Posts: 2.5K, Visits: 8K	Strength you will have to find out the loadings and do some calculations for. The thickness sounds fine, I've seen similar uprights in carbon that sort of thickness but they all had a much higher carbon content and had only a small core or no core at all if heavily cut out. To solve the edges, you can stop the soric short then use thin strips of carbon to fill the gap. Means you will only have carbon on the edge so you can shape it. Or, shape it, gouge out a thin section of soric then infil it with Black Epoxy Repair Filler. Warren Penalver Easy Composites / Carbon Mods - Technical Support Assistant
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*VVS*	*VVS* posted 9 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Moderators Posts: 226, Visits: 334	If you can control your stack height you could bond a length of carbon tube in the edges to give a nice radius. Might make the job too complicated but you may be able to put them in your dry stack and infuse the lot, not sure about this.
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