By chrismadrid - 2/22/2012 3:41:14 PM
I have an "issue" that I'm hoping to resolve.
I have a motorcycle with a height adjustable fly screen. This has cut outs shaped to fit arround the headlights. But when the screen is adjusted up to its highest there is a 40mm-ish gap between the lights and screen cutout.
This gap allows water/bugs/air through and it's all getting very mucky.
I'm torn between using the H/D flexible sheet or a thinish (1mm) rigid sheet. I need something flexible enough to be able to follow the original screen form without it folding back on itself once underway - The bike is not slow.
If pictures will help - I'll post some.
Thanks - Chris
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By Matt (Staff) - 4/22/2012 5:50:13 PM
Hi Chris,
That's useful feedback. Yes, the flexible carbon fibre sheet is heat sensitive because the polymer is essentially PVC (which softens a lot with heat) so you will have a much softer material at a higher temperature. A rigid material, if you need a reasonable amount of flex from it, would probably need to be as thin as 0.5mm and possibly even our very thin 0.25mm pre-preg carbon fibre sheet. You would certainly only be able to get a single curvature out of the rigid carbon fibre sheet.
--Matt
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