carbons not really high tech at all, same as glass fibre really and glass fibre repairs are easily carried out by the most ham fisted unskilled people. The trick is to make it look neat and tidy, restore original strength with minimal weight penalties.
I’ve said it before, carbon fibre is 70’s technology. Old hat, it is just now it is being applied to more products and applications than before as it’s now cheaper. As with everything, there are some benefits and some drawbacks.
My experience of carbon repairs in industry is that they’re never as good again and really only a temporary fix to get you to a point where it is convenient to carry out a much larger sub-assembly level repair/replacement. It will be interesting to see the longevity of these repairs as carbon frames become more plentiful and more widely used and abused as metal frames. At the moment they are a small percentage of MTB frames sold and a tiny percentage of all MTB frames out there, so we don’t really know how they’re going to last.
