Easy Way to Forged Carbon Fiber Skin with R-bond Forged Carbon Fiber Fabric

Part 1: • The Wrong Way to Forge...
Exploring a new way to forged carbon fiber skin a 3d printed potato head. R-bond forged fabric has a heat activated backing, so I was able to bond it to the part with a mini heat press before adding epoxy resin.
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0:00 Intro to Iron-On Forged Carbon Fiber
0:51 Skinning 3D Printed Part with R-Bond
01:37 Adding Epoxy Resin
02:25 Curing in Heated Box
02:52 Sanding 1st Layer Forged Carbon
03:22 I Sanded Too Much
05:00 Patching Mistakes
06:07 Adding More Resin
09:19 Beautiful Forged Carbon Fiber
09:34 Sanding Excess Resin
09:50 Result
10:29 Tater Rating
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[@aetherseraph]

I haven't seen your other carbon videos, but in my experience applying raw carbon mat or tow (tow is the raw fiber) to surfaces, the best way to get raw carbon to stick to anything is with a tack coat of the same resin you're going to use in the bonding system.
Depending on the working time, it may be necessary to pattern out the fabric so that it will match the topology of what you're trying to cover correctly.
Thanks for the tip on tacking raw carbon to plastic with heat. I wouldn't have expected it to key itself into the surface enough to hold like that.

[@LindyDesignLab]

Thanks for the suggestion, patterning would probably be a better way. This particular forged fabric has some kind of coating on the back that is heat activated, so plain raw carbon would definitely need resin or something to stick.

[@aetherseraph]

@@LindyDesignLab sounds like the mfg company sprayed one side with prepreg resin. Most of the forged carbon stuff out there is a completely saturated prepreg sheet that gets patterned, applied, wrapped in high temp cellophane and then baked to cure.
Thanks for clarifying how it was sticking. Sometimes I'm not the best viewer...

[@LindyDesignLab]

@aetherseraph well I'm not the best video maker or... anything maker... so feedback, corrections and ideas are always appreciated.

[@alfredkennedy816]

I can’t find the one when you used an aquarium pump for vacuum .

[@LindyDesignLab]

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[@nishali3343]

you can use shrink tape like this guy did to get the shape perfect
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