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
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...
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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.