How to Make Prepreg/Dry Carbon Fibre Parts (Carbon Fiber Airbox Pt. 3)
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- Опубликовано: 31 июл 2024
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Advanced composites video tutorial explaining exactly how to make professional quality prepreg (dry) carbon fibre (fiber) parts without the need for autoclave curing. In the video we make a complex airbox part using the 3-part split-mould we made earlier in the video series.
The curing oven we use is available from : www.easycomposites.co.uk/ov30... 
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This video along with all the others are so detailed and understandable. but really and truly the host is excellent. he explains the process to the tee.
After watching all these steps to creating a part, I'm happy to pay a grand for my carbon fiber hood.
I never thought it was possible to find such a fantastic video on this matter. Not even in my dreams.
Thank you very much!
Thanks very much, that's praise indeed. Glad it was what you were looking for.
I'm impressed! Talk about a ton of work but this series leaves no stone unturned, nice job!
Best ending to a youtube video I have ever seen. Damn this is inspirational. I really want to get involved. WELL DONE
ıt's a legendary series of composite works even after 10 years later . l really respect your efforts and passşons about capturing , preparing and editing skills. Thank you again....
I watch a lot videos about this topics but yours my friend are absolutely the best one I see, easy to understand ,great explication great product results .
You guys are the best when it comes to presenting the skills and techniques required for working with carbon fiber. Your work is much appreciated!
Cheers Thomas, we appreciate your feedback.
I’ve been in the composite manufacturing industry for 15 years. And I really enjoy your videos. Thank you!
Thanks for the kind words, really appreciate it.
Looking at the comments, they vary from 1 month to eight years.
Says a lot how your videos that keep on giving.
2022 for the win!!!
Great tutorials that always inspire me to take on your composite processes.
Please keep these uploads fast and strong.
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This was an *excellent* series of videos. Your presentation is clear and very thorough. Making the three-part mold, vacuum bagging it, and joining the two halves were particularly interesting bits.
SatansSpatula Thanks a lot. As you'd expect from us, we have lots more videos on the way, including the 'complete introduction to prepreg carbon fibre' video that we mention in this tutorial. Thansk for watching.
I have no words to explain the value of your videos.
Huge respect for you sir.
Thank you Vinoth, appreciated.
Best instructional videos on RUclips my a country mile! Well done.
I truly enjoyed watching this 3-part video. It was extremely informative and succeeded in demonstrating the work involved with making a carbon fiber part. I never imagined the process was so involved. Excellent work on the part of the narrator whom is without any doubt experienced and highly qualified in working with these types of materials.
Thank you for the great feedback Henri, comments like this make it all worthwhile! :)
I want to get into carbon fiber so bad. It's so gorgeous. The end of the video is probably the best part, too. Cool to see what the part is actually used for.
8:45 I use a pair of scissors with a bend 'beak' that has tiny teeth on its cutting surface, to cut the lay-up flush with the square edge. Works a treat! Superb tutorial, Paul. Thanks for the upload! Cheers, Rob
your work is amazing! i think you have helped thousands of people about how to make carbon fiber parts! including me! thanks for all and continue uploading videos!! 😊
Thank you Vasilis, that's very kind of you.
These are great videos; highly informative and a pleasure to watch. A great showcase for your company. Thank you!
Still the best video series (and the best channel) on composites on youtube
good video, and this prepreg is the best I've used untill now! If you take your time in the lay up, you will get pinhole free items coming out of the mould every time! keep up the good work guys, looking forward for your next videos ;)
Thanks for the feedback! It is great to hear when our customers achieve great results from materials we have supplied. It also lets us know we are heading down the right path and gives us ideas and inspiration for other materials and tutorials.
Great Work !!
+Easy Composites Ltd This looks great, I've been speaking Rich in one of your departments and had me check out Matts Video as well as a few of yours!! This is awesome work...Gonna realy need to review these as my project is going to be a far shot for a first timer..I'm already an artist so...hopefully my skill will help me with this one.
Thats a great video tutorial with a vast of details and technics for a beginner to start with, thanks for making and sharing that.
Cool that you always use these made items.
sweet the final product, bad ass! thank you will deff be making some sick parts thanks to you guys and these videos... more!!!
If you can find this for work it's the best job ever!
This is an absolute masterclass. Thanks so much.
Great tutorial! One of the best and most complete with the latest techniques.
Thanks, appreciated.
I'm searching for mold making for our RC drone . your video is absolutely amazing, thank for instruction.
a perfect video! I have learn many things from you! thank you!
Wow that was way cool, especially with the car taking off at the end!
I love watching these! Very inspirational and motivational! :D
I enjoyed this. Seems a huge amount of effort, but appreciate the detail on how to do it.
Thanks David, actually, making prepreg parts in this way is quick and easy once you know what you're doing. When we explain things in so much detail in a tutorial I think it might make it look more complicated than it is. I guess it depends on what you need from the finished part; if it's a complex shape and it's got to be as strong and light as possible then this *is* your easiest option!
When you're doing it it's mostly a lot of waiting
Thomas Gionet And while waiting, other molds or other projects can be worked on :)
i just ordered a whole cf layering kit plus epoxy mold kits... i will post my results to your FB page. thanks for offering sooooo many WONDERFUL videos on how to make all the items!
japanman1994 Thanks for liking what we do and for getting involved by purchasing products from us. We look forward to working with you and seeing how you get on. Certainly post your project on our Facebook and Talk Composites forum :)
ou i see. i was your client. WISH YOU LONG YEARS IN BUSINESS YOU HAVE VERY GOOD WAYS TO REACH OUR BRAINS!
I wish you didn't make it look so easy haha, I am doing something similar to this for a composites project, and it is quite the challenge! Awesome video!
I truly appreciate the efforts put into this tutorial video. Very well explained, clear descriptions of the steps involved to create a finished product. The “Pre Impregnated” resins leak a little that created the flashing tells me the their is enough to completely saturate the part, leaving a bubble free or void free strong part. After scraping, filing, cutting and finishing the air box after keeping the fabrics grain aligned, I wish your director would have allowed time to show the part. After all of that, we get to see the air box for 1.2 seconds! A full two or three minutes should have dedicated to the finished part. Let us see the shine, grain direction, parting line finish and I would have placed in on the floor and stood on it. These are proof of buying the more expensive product on the market, if you are proud of it!
Retired ASE Master Tech of 40+ years
Thanks for your comments Dean. We'll certainly try to include more detailed footage of the finished component in the future. If you're ever in the area of our factory you are more than welcome to see the part (and other parts we've made) in person to inspect the quality first hand. Please also check out our other video on prepreg carbon fibre where you might see more time dedicated to inspecting the finish. I'm not sure than standing on an airbox would be a particularly relevant test because the whole point of light-weighting is to make something just as strong as it needs to be in order to do its job. Being strong enough to stand on would tell me that the layup of the airbox was too heavy and it needs to be lighter since this is NOT the loading the airbox would experience in service. Nonetheless, more focus on the finished component is certainly something we will keep in mind.
@@easycompositestv I enjoyed this video and have seen others. Wrapping the firearm stock starting with black pigment epoxy called “XCR Base Coat” and proper timing to begin the adhesive process to use carbon fiber cloth is exactly what I was looking for. Yes, I started a clean sheet white paper to take notes on your products, proper procedures. So I am paying attention to the product. My statement of standing on it was outside the actual air box with a single layer side was a little impracticable. Just wanted to see it better. In Omaha, I wish I was in a position to be a point of distribution as we are in the middle of the US, with major interstates and the original home of the railroads. It is 2,200 miles West to CA & 2,100 miles East to Boston, so in the middle with one of the highest rated airports at Epply. Home to SAC and Offutt Air Force Base. So dead center for product distribution while refrigeration is part of the cost, but have ever had an order from Omaha steaks?
Either way, it would be nice to manufacture the product in the US and have a centralized distribution point. I understand the companies that use your unique product, as for myself, plan on future product purchase. These video tutorials in my opinion are invaluable for product application and the possibilities that car guys can dream up. I thank you for that!
Motorcycle Tech, UTI Instructor, ASE Master Tech and tech instructor/tech seminar leader for ACDelco - Retired.
This guy is an awesome instructor
Thank you for this video, it helps me o lot. Specialy for my other skills to Formula Student project where we still use classic carbon fibre, Thank you so much. :)
I will continue to learn from your videos. Just my opinion but you guys make the most professional quality parts by investing that little extra work called Craftsmanship.
love these videos. thanks a million for these. just learned need the perferated breather then the other breather for the prepreg process.
Hi John, I hope there's not been any confusion, you should have learned that for prepreg you need only unperforated release film and then (usually) breather. The breather is to make sure you have open air paths but the unperforated film stops the laminate from sticking to the breather. It's important that the release film isn't perforated because the prepreg should already have the exact quantity of resin in it, we don't want to bleed any off through the release film.
Thank you for this super interesting and informative tutorial serie.
You're very welcome. Thanks for your support.
Great video! Very good presentation!!!
brilliant idea of the alignment
Excellent and neat tutorial!!!
Lol, Love the ending. I have an Ariel Atom and want to make some carbon fiber parts. I will be ordering your kit, Thank you very much for the Video!!!!!
You guys are nothing short of epic! If for some odd reason you come to the states in the future, I owe you a round...
Thanks David, it's great fun being able to make these and share them. We enjoy it a lot, despite the hours and hours of work they require. I'll be sure to look you up for that round!
Once again awesome job......
Love Easy Composites :)
That was a great series
Excellent explanation
The mould is more beautiful than the final product.
i need to make the exact same thing for my car. Love your videos m8!
Greaaaaat work!
Great product!
Love your work :)
Thank you very much for all these usefull information ..
Very good channel.... I learn so much from here..
YOU ARE A GENIUS IN FORMING CARBON THINGS
Haha, thanks a lot.
Gosh damn this has been so fasinating to watch! Bravo!
Thank you! That's very kind.
Thank you for a very detailed video
Thanks for watching, glad you found it useful.
Excellent video.
great video.. very helpful.
great videos. great job.
Great vid buddy
This is the fare best video!
This is so annoying to do, I have real respect for this guy
Beautiful street lamp!
Exactly Wojciech, just think of the weight we could save if we replaced all streetlights with these!
Very helpful
Could you please make more learning videos in a new playlist, explaining how to select the proper fiber with proper resin, and how to deal with each couple of composite materials?
A pdf with sektches would be helpful as well. Anyway thanks very much.
I really wish you guys would make a video going over the various fasteners and thread inserts you can use with CF parts, and how to avoid galvanic corrosion.
It is something we may consider in the future alone with clips etc that many can struggle with making. We currently have a number of ideas for future videos we are considering producing.
I thought the guy was a really good communicator. And the script was good too
Hello .... I agree 100% with you .... excellent and complete communicator in the art of composite materials.
Very nice video
Awesome videos!
Glad you enjoyed!
Great Job. 😊👍🇧🇻
At LAST!!! Thanks a lot!
After this series i understand the prices of carbon fiber pieces
you guys are amazing
Thanks Ritik, that's very kind.
@@easycompositestv you guys are going to be very helpful in my uav project
Good video, thanks;)
Very helpful : )
Outstanding! I use to have a GRP laminates shop.
Those materials are top notch. The surface coat epoxy graphite? Beautiful workmanship. Great presentation smart and neat.
Thank you for the feedback Carter, appreciated.
Brilliant!
Excellent !! :)
Молодец ! Успехов Вам, хорошее видео !
Two questions.... 1. how different is the process for a wet lay up technique and 2. what is the car at the end of the video? Also, this was the absolute best, most informative A to Z instructional video on this subject I've ever seen, thanks for producing it!
Thanks very much! Q1) Well, as you can see from the video the process is quite different from wet-lay. A part as complicated as this would be very difficult to make using a conventional wet-lay process and if you could make it then it would be pretty much impossible to make something that looked commercial quality, for a part like this, if you have access to the vacuum pump and oven then prepreg is the way to go. Q2) It's an MEV Rocket. We built it ourselves and use use for fun projects like this!
This video series was useful. I am currently designing a new desk for my room and am considering making some of the major components using this technique.
The major obstacles for me to overcome are:
Financial; I have a limited budget as I am a student and under 18.
The machines I have access to; my college may not have sufficient equipment to emulate the process that you demonstrated.
And the process of making parts using a material as complicated as the one displayed; I have never worked with Carbon Fiber, in fact I have worked with very few materials outside of basic wood and mild steel.
However, I am determined to make this project a reality, I feel it would be my first legitimate make that, if nothing else, teaches me useful skills that I can transfer toward my goal of (hopefully) becoming a designer.
+Iron2Man911 Your school should have a vacuum pump. The only thing you need is an oven large enough to cure the prepreg. A desk is a pretty ambitious sized CF project.
FWIW, most designers I know have never built anything themselves and never will.
+Iron2Man911 Forgot to mention - for your desk, you can use a "carbon fiber" vinyl wrap.
Good stuff.
The final part weighs 230g.
+Hakasauars You cannot make pre-preg parts without an oven...
PUU-TAAH Nin Nin darn. thanks
Get one for free on Craigslist
It's certainly true that when you're starting out you can pick up a second-hand domestic oven very cheaply (or free) and then drill a hole through the side so that you can pass the vacuum hose through. What where you drill of course to ensure you don't damage any wiring/elements etc.
Easy Composites Ltd
I get a lot of scrap material from work as big as 50" by 50"
I have all the knowledge to build parts except the curing material and release agent that I dont know where to buy them ! Do you guys ship material to USA or have a retail store in USA where I can order it?
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awesome! all i need now is a vacuum oven..
that ending was unreal haha
would love to see how to make complex intake tubing in carbon fibre.
wow, I am in Canada and I am thinking of taking my older Trans am, and making it into a Fiber glass re body. I looked up some of the parts and to be honest it was way up in price. so I been thinking of making some of the parts myself.
Awesome indeed. A clump guy could never do it well, put me on that list.
Thanks
How much is this oven, where in the states can i find one, love it, brillant work nice video
Your voice makes this feel like Art Attack for adults.
Draw a giant parrot using only salt.
That was exactly what I thought 😂. But honestly, best instructional video I have ever watched. If only we could get their materials in Australia....
Brilliant 👏👏👏🇦🇺
Cheers, thanks Bondy.
Thank you for this video.
I appreciate that you tell me if all the pieces have to be built with three layers.
Regards
The number of layers depends on the application and type of part. For many small cosmetic parts we find one layer of Easy-Preg Surfacing Layer and one layer of Vari-Preg 430g as a backing will provide a nice strong part with a thickness of about 0.75mm. For bigger parts or items that are more strength critical then more layers can be used as necessary.
Been watching many vids on Carbon Fiber, many from here, as I think they are the most detailed, however I had no idea about the "dry" way.
The entire video segments of this my mind was racing at how the epoxy was going to be injected, he started wrapping it up in the bag.....lol
I just wonder how strong this type is, as well, will heat take this air box back apart?
I really love this video and I’ve been following your channel long time from its 1st till now ..i like to do my own part project i have many things in my mind to do but the item your using are really way to much expensive for us as a ordinary malaysian people 😭💔
Well, we try to do a range of videos which tackle different levels of composites. We certainly plan to have more entry level videos coming soon too so stay tuned.
thanks
I been to three county fairs and ain’t seen nothing to beat it.
Very cool stuff! Way to cut down on magazine cost?