Hey, I’m new here and completely new to carbon.

My aims/ambitions/targets etc - to be able to carbon skin pretty much anything but nothing on a grand scale. My main focus will be car interior panels.

I’ve bought the starter kit off easy composites and ordered the vacuum bagging kit aswel which based on a few videos it just looked useful for holding the carbon really tightly to the base cost once it’s first been laid.

Will I end up going to a bigger scale? Probably so - I get bored easily and this will merely be a hobby to begin with done from home and I’m having one of my big bedrooms in the house made into my carbon room. . Just need ideas on a work station? The whole house has just had new carpet but that room I’ll get a vinyl floor laid now instead as easier to clean of dust etc. It’s got an en suite which I’ll turn into somewhere I can do all the wet sanding.

Exiting times!!

+x

 

Hanaldo - 10/13/2018 2:43:05 AM

I'd avoid making any dust inside. Not only is it very unhealthy in an enclosed space, but it will migrate throughout the house and it is conductive, so the possibility of destroying TV's and computers and any other electronics is very real. Wet sanding is obviously fine.

You dont need much really, just a workbench or two and some wall racks for storing fabric. Couple of drawer units or other storage solutions for things like scissors and knives and you're ready to roll.

Thanks so much for the reply. I was going to get an extraction system built in so that any sanding it would have a moveable tube and extract it outside as I do my sanding and would make sure the door to that room was sealed ? It could be done in my garage I suppose but will have other things going on in there (kitchen resprays business).

Work bench is my main thing I need. The bedroom has the en suite which can convert to the wet sanding room and it’s got two big cupboards built in either side too which would be perfect for storsge.