Carbon Braided Sleeve


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Hi, several questions in one here guys.

    Would your Braided Sleeve be suitable for making tubing to be used for a Bike Frame. The tubes I have in mind are "Box Section ish" rather than conventional Round Tube. As yet I am undecided whether to use a mandrel type construction or a Mould and Bladder process. I have Vacuum equipment also.

Any advice on Fabric Weight and number of layers would be greatly appreciated. In fact any advice even if it is to say forget the idea!!!!!
I know this is not an easy one to answer with regard to structural strength etc but just some general advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance. Warren (wozza)

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Hi, thanks for the positive comments.

The whole project is a bit of a learning curve. I wish I could say that I had used some ultra technical ground breaking method of construction!!!!! The fact is the Tubes have been made around a simple former. The seat post for example was formed around a vacuum cleaner attachment hose (nice gradual taper) The former was wrapped in Release Tape, a length of 200grm 2/2 twill cloth (3 X tube diameter) cut and wet laid around the the former. Once that had become touch dry the Carbon Braid was slid over and Resin applied. Wrapped in Heat Shrink Tape and warmed with a heat gun to consolidate the layers.
The same process was used for all the Tubes. The box section Formers where made up of multiple layers of 18mm MDF, skimmed in body filler and hand finished to size.

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