Hi, do you have any images of a cured part using the red poly/carbon twill please?

The red in my current fabric goes very dark once wetted and cured. I need something that maintains a bright red. I've found a fabric in the US but would be best not to import it.

Cheers

Hi,

All the coloured fabrics go darker when they're wet through with resin (for just the same reason that blond or red hair goes darker when it's wet). The colour of what's behind makes the biggest difference.

I can't think how any other cloth could be different but I can say that with our coloured fabrics you need to be prepared for the coloured fibres to go darker when they're wetted through/laminated.

Best regards, Matt

Matt Statham
Easy Composites / Carbon Mods - Technical Sales

Blue and green didnt change that much at all but red almost disappeared.

So to create a light back ground would it mean creating the initial CF part with a white pigment in the resin and then to wrap the the part in the red CF?

Or lose the white pigment but use a white backing coat for the red CF to be wrapped?

Either way i dont see a way to avoid wrapping