[Closed] Where to get a Carbon fibre repair Botched Together?

You can buy repair kits e.g. Easy Composites for £25 and plenty of videos online:

http://www.easycomposites.co.uk/#!/starter-kits/fishing-pole-repair-kit.html

Rob Hayles - yes that Rob Hayles - is based out in Hayfield and - coincidentally - repaired my Dirty Disco when it cracked the headtube and a seatstay. He's on twitter as recarb -  https://twitter.com/re_carb?lang=en

There's an e-mail address on his profile there. re-carb@outlook.com

also, and more importantly.... are old posts ordered in a psychotic way when you open them from a search in Google?

I noticed this the other day, but discounted it as obviously impossible; but have now noticed it's definitely happening.  The OP is usually lost somewhere in the middle of the page.  The first post is just some random response to the question.... you don't actually see the question until halfway down the page.

Is this some random improvement following the "upgrade"?

Select Poster.name; post.text from poster inner join post on Post.ID = poster.id

order by Post.age desc, poster name

and assuming it's an old enough post all the initial ones are the same number of years old so it just sorts them randomly.

I assume this has been covered in one of the many Isn'tSTWShitSinceTheUpgradePosts, but I haven't read them

excellent, that kit looks like the business.

Thanks also MrDawg, Rob's site does indeed look good, but probably the wrong price point.

Any alternative fix kits, perhaps aimed at bikes?

cheers

If you really want to do it cheap why not fibreglass  - probably do it for a tenner

Just for context, a mate of mine broke the seat-stay of his carbon cross bike a week before the Three Peaks. He fixed it using one of the carbon fibre repair kits and raced it at the Peaks without problems. I can't remember which kit he used, but I'll ask if I bump into him this weekend - chances are he'll have forgotten as well mind...

The main point I'm making is simply that a DIY repair kit can potentially work fine.

Also, Rob wasn't made expensive for me anyway. You won't need paint I guess, so that'll keep costs down. Worth an e-mail I reckon.

I've had both kinds of repair, a guy near Derby did a 'proper' fix on a snapped seat stay, made a really good job of it, can get his details if required, that was £180 ish including postage, more than you want to spend by the sound of it but worth it IMO, top job.

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Other end of the scale I rubbed a hole in a downtube with a bottle and did it myself with a carbon fishing rod repair kit, that was 7yrs ago and it's been fine, if not as well finished as the repair above. Not sure I would DIY something structural though. Pics here http://andrewhowett.blogspot.com/2012/01/mending-carbon-frame.html

Rob isn't expensive and is very good. recommended here too.

also, and more importantly…. are old posts ordered in a psychotic way when you open them from a search in Google?

I think it's all posts before a certain date, definitely not just ones from google search anyway.

That repair kit looks perfect for the job, what don't you like about that? Is it just the cost?

I did this three years ago:

https://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/my-diy-carbon-frame-repair/

It's still going strong...

That's about as cheap as composite frame repairs get, zero guarantees of course and while it's not difficult, it requires a bit more effort than just slapping epoxy and carbonated over the damaged spot...

Neilwheel

That repair kit looks perfect for the job, what don’t you like about that? Is it just the cost?

Nothing really  it looks perfect. Not sure really why I asked for more options

Sometimes I over think things and try to investigate every angle. I should just get on and order it ( after emailing Rob as the man says)

Thanks all