Hello,

My name is James, and I'm from the US. I go to school at the University of South Florida Polytechnic, and am working on making small solor powered race cars for a new endurance racing circuit, using advanced remote control and robotics systems. I'm interested in making most of the car out of carbon fiber, as our main concern is power to weight ratio, and the batteries and electronics in the car will be farily heavy. I have no experience working with carbon, or fiberglass.

This is easily the best site i've come accross in my research for carbon fiber related help, and it's a great one stop shop too, although the VAT and shipping costs look like their going to sting my college budget pretty bad.

Thanks for the site, and pre-thanks for any help.
James Newberry

PS. The submission buttons (post, preview post) on your site are EXTREMELY difficult to read, they are showing up for me as light grey, and the lettering in them is(are?) white. The only reason I know they're even there is the red outline.

Hi James, welcome here ! We will be happy to give you some help if we can. Cheers from belgium.

 



 


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what browser are you running and if the admin crew could let me know what forum script has been used for this site (looks like instantforum to me) i could help you with that.                                                    

The forum is powered by instantforum running is asp.net on SQLServer. I can't think why the submit buttons would look wrong. Like Japcarmaniac says, browser version and platform would help us to resolve this.

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Matt Statham
Easy Composites / Carbon Mods - Technical Sales

Hey brothers, welcome to Talk composites.Yea you won’t find anything of value on the web about working with composites excepthere.

I had been searching for a while and saw these guys starting this one up, thereproducts are quality and they have all the knowhow you will ever need!

I think it can be done no prob, there's alot of composite have to do with theschool.

As far as the shipping, id get it all shipped in one shot, it’s gonna bepricey...

Dude, and the buttons: THE PROBLEM IS YOU BUTTON IS A LIGHT GRAY WITH WHITETEXT... MAKE THE TEXT IN BUTTON BLACK OR DARK GRAY IF YOU DONT LOOK CLOSETHE BUTTONS APPEAR TO BE UN-LABLED.

If Brute Force Isn''''t working your not using enough...

As I was writing this, I noticed that the buttons look right, I was working on a school computer (we have a high-end digital media lab that I work at.) when the buttons where wonky, I'll take a look again tomorrow and see if they're still broken, If they are, it's probably a java or flash problem, which I'll need to fix at our computers.

Hey man, welcome to the forum!

YOu dont need to pay VAT if you are the US. You will have to pay your own VAT in the states. which is considerably less than we have here in Europe.

cheers

This is my first shot, I didn't have any release agent, but I used ALOT of carwax. It popped out without much issue. I think the parts that don't have the grey layer are where the carbon lifted from the surface to the mold (and by mold I mean a finger made kitchen-oven dried peice of clay)

2 layers of wax, 1 layer epoxy, 1 carbon, 1 epoxy, 1 carbon, 1 expoxy, let sit.

It's supposed to be a tag holder for a motorcycle.

I'm working from limited resources here, so don't knock it if you don't have too, and sorry about the bad quality, me cell phone camera has no image stablization.

welcome james

as i saw in your picture all i can see is a finished part but needs a little work to 100% be finished , now all you have to do is to sand it with caution , not to touch the carbon or you can add a layer or 2 epoxy, depending on the surface quality you have then sand it from 220 till 2000 and then either you polish it or clear coat it , i prefer the last one and you have your part in aperfect look and condition.

best regards mhd alghoul mhdghoul@hotmail.com youtube channel :atmospherejo link is http://www.youtube.com/user/atmospherejo?ob=0&feature=results_main