Hi, anyone know of any good videos showing modern carbon frame manufacture?

Any particular industry and, in particular, process?

I'm just uploading a vid of our carbon bars being made. It's kind of similar.

My guess is that when he said "frames" he was referring to bicycles.

Ah, yes 😳

Process is still the important bit – pre-preg/filament wound/RTM/etc

http://shedfire.posterous.com/carnegie-carbon-molding

I know nothing about it, I'm trying to get an appreciation of how they lay the carbon weave (if that's what they do) and how they shape it.
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interesting video Brant, but what's he doing?

brant that looks like a shady little factory, I was hoping for super high tech clean room type setting 🙂

Looks like the bars are made with pre-preg over a former, think I'd rather my bars were filament wound really.

brant that looks like a shady little factory, I was hoping for super high tech clean room type setting

the clean room is next door. That's where all the layers are laid up into a "stack" – that sort of snakey bit – then put in the mold, heated, inflated and baked. That chap is fitting the laid up stack into the tool for cooking.

Looks like the bars are made with pre-preg over a former, think I'd rather my bars were filament wound really.

That's right. Different layers of UD pre-preg, stacked then heated etc. I don't know of any filament wound bars – I'm not sure how you'd do them or the benefits, but I will ask my mate on Monday.

Any other questions?

What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?

I reckon this is how they do it…

clicky

This is how the Chinese produce product. Little garages, sheds and rooms on back streets producing quality items because they have pride in what they do. We have a perception that unless you have a CNC machine and spotless workshop, product will be shoddy. Think again-the reality is very different.