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.

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