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Hi! So I'm designing a part that has to go over an exhaust of a car (not too near but not too far either) so it's got constant hot air blowing over it. I've been using pre-preg carbon fiber for the part and I was wondering if I could coat it with this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R7mm63eWv8
which I came across while browsing the internet. Was wondering what you guys would think of this if I used it as my surface gel coat for my pre-preg parts.
Thank you!
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Abilash
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7 Years Ago
Quite a few pre-preg systems have a working temperature after postcure in the 120 -130 C ball park so I can't see the advantage of using this coating.
Warren (Staff)
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7 Years Ago
Agreed, seems to be a pretty pointless product for epoxy impregnated carbon cloth, probably mainly used for vinylester resins and fibreglass :-) I have prepreg carbon using epoxy resin capable of...
Steve Broad
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7 Years Ago
X-Preg service temp is only 115C ^ The product in the video is basically an epoxy tooling gelcoat, it's intended for high temperature tooling - ie. moulds for pre-preg. There is no point putting ...
Hanaldo
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7 Years Ago
As the surface coat isn't a heat reflector, good point. An option is to apply a heat reflective material, such as something from the Zircotec range. They do a self adhesive option....
Steve Broad
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