How do you fab carbon fiber, anyone? Options

[Britain Smith]

Can anyone share their knowledge on how to fabricate carbon fiber peices...I would love to make some stuff out of carbon fiber but I don't know how to do it or where to get the materials.

Help????

-Britain (IMG:style_emoticons/default/pray.gif)

[TMorr]

Phenolic resins have some of the highest service temperatures of any laminating systems. Unfortunately they have relatively poor mechanical properties, so their use is limited by this.
CFRP with phenolic is kind of oxymoron, the performance of the Carbon fibers is so high that it can not be utilized in a Phenolic laminate.
Fiberglass and Phenolic are a more reasonable match, as is Phenolic and cotton, which is the common thermal insulator for carbs, circuit boards etc.
There are some other resins with better combinations of properties and these are used for components like the carbon exhausts on the Ferrari's.
These resins, with names I can pronounce, but not spell have applications far and wide, I am sure including aerospace where they would have been developed.
Anything cured above 1 atm, will not have been under vacuum, but rather in an Autoclave, where multiples of atm. can be generated to squeeze the laminate for advanced consolidation.

Hayden PTBT