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AdeV:

--- Quote from: Joules on November 05, 2015, 03:22:38 PM ---
What is great, make your patterns in normal PLA, then vac bag your pre preg carbon over them unless it also needs cooking.  We have done this with glass fibre tissue.


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This is certainly something I've considered using 3d printing for; vacuum layup looks to be one of the better ways of making carbon fibre parts. The biggest problem, as always, being size; one way to overcome that would, of course, be to print interlocking parts.


--- Quote from: Joules on November 05, 2015, 03:22:38 PM ---Ade, just looked at that printer and the glaring problem is that it literally lays a single filament along the print...   Errrrrr, the filament isn't cross linked to the one below so no extra benefit in sheer.  Alot of pennies for a concept I would step widely by.

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it's not perfect, agreed; and because the fibre's encased in plastic rather than resin, it won't have the same properties as a true CF part... but it's more than just a single fibre around the print; you can (by the looks of it), print an entire layer of filament if one wishes. The maker shows off some of his wares in this video:

Joules:
Another thing to bear in mind Ade, you can combine 3D printed parts with parts made by other methods.  Say for instance long flat surfaces can be wood or metal, then the fillets or complex geometry done as printed parts attached to more basic geometrical parts.  3D printing is a great complimentary process, too many get blinkered and think it ALL has to be 3D printed.

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