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!!

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Steve Broad - 10/13/2018 8:32:25 AM

I found out about the conductive properties of carbon when my TIG welder exploded!
Although low, the stuff used still has a smell and will pervade the whole house. A friend (owns Carbon Weezel) worked in a shed and only kept finished parts in his house but it still stunk of resin.

Ah this is a big problem for the plans I had . I do bodybuilding and when you go for your tan they have a big extracter fan that takes all the overspray and smell in the massive room out of the window. Surely something like that would be sufficient? Obviously don’t want the house to smell. I did spray my kitchen cupboards recently in the garage with cellly paint and the WHOLE house stunk of it and actually had overspray in every single room somehow lol

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Steve Broad - 10/13/2018 10:27:40 PM

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Kieren1234 - 10/13/2018 9:45:39 PM

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Steve Broad - 10/13/2018 8:32:25 AM

I found out about the conductive properties of carbon when my TIG welder exploded!
Although low, the stuff used still has a smell and will pervade the whole house. A friend (owns Carbon Weezel) worked in a shed and only kept finished parts in his house but it still stunk of resin.

Ah this is a big problem for the plans I had . I do bodybuilding and when you go for your tan they have a big extracter fan that takes all the overspray and smell in the massive room out of the window. Surely something like that would be sufficient? Obviously don’t want the house to smell. I did spray my kitchen cupboards recently in the garage with cellly paint and the WHOLE house stunk of it and actually had overspray in every single room somehow lol

Do you not have space for a small shed? A large fan and sealing the room from the rest of the house will make a big difference, but can't guarantee no small escaping into the house. I guess it depends on how sensitive your, or your guests', noses are :-)

I could build one no problem but did want it in that bedroom. It is only epoxy that I’ll be using.