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Hello,
I have no experience with carbon as a material.
I've just seen a handle for a trolley that is made from carbon. At a glance, it looks like bent tube construction, but I don't think that you can bend carbon tube once it's been cured.
I've done some digging on the internet and seen some examples of producing handlebars with Bag Inflation Moulding, but this seems a bit overkill. Can you buy pre-cured carbon tubes that can be cured in a bent shape using a mould?
It appears to have some aluminium components fixed on the end that are machined to allow it to be bolted onto the trolley. The whole assembly is then powder coated.
Can anyone offer me some advice on what I'm looking at and how I might be able to go about producing something similar myself?
Cheers,
Alex
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AMRound
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6 Years Ago
You cannot bend cured carbon tubes. For sure that part would be bladder moulded. Could use Expancell alternatively. Ends would be a machined or die casted part glued in after moulding the tube. You.....
hojo
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6 Years Ago
Hi Hojo, Thanks for your reply. I have looked a bit into bike manufacturing, Bladder moulding looks like it's perfect for manufacturing complex shapes. I've never heard of expancell. A quick google.....
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