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Cutting Carbon Fiber.....

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Moose777

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Anyone have any experience with Carbon Fiber?

I'm asking because I have two Carbon fiber "plates" that measure 9 3/4" x 5.5" that I had made up for my car. (If you must know they both read "Vehicle under 24 hour Video Surveillance"; when I lived in Colorado my car had been broken into 3 times and the stereo was stolen out of it on one of those occasions, the police were useless so I bought a camera and hooked it up to my computer and ran it 24 hours a day on motion detection. I had about 300 hours of video before I moved. Needless to say, no one messed with my car ever again. In fact the police came to my door asking for video any time something did happen in the development.)

Anyway since I moved back to my hometown in NJ where crime is almost non-existant (I live in the middle of nowhere) I thought I'd make some fan grills out of the plates since I'm no longer using them.

But I have no idea how to go about cutting them. Would a hole saw be too destructive?
 
Few quick questions about this. How thick are the plates? Were they made professionally or did you buy the CF, put epox and tatting on it, and voila?

I've had quite a bit of expirence with CF, but mine has all been home brew (well sorta homebrew, I've done work on a solar car and fuel cell car that is carbon fiber shelled)
 
They were professionally made for me. They are thin. Super thin I'm guessing around 3/16th.

I'm not looking to make real elaborate type of grills. Just a simple design and drilling a few holes in them. I just want to know if it breaks easy under a drill. I mean, I know CF is supposed to be rediculously strong but they to me feel like glass.
 
Ok cool. I was thinking a Dremel might work. And I was most likely going to do the cutting outside as soon as it stops snowing and the bulk of it melts.
 
Moose777 said:
Ok cool. I was thinking a Dremel might work. And I was most likely going to do the cutting outside as soon as it stops snowing and the bulk of it melts.
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You should still at least where a dust mask and preferably some eye sealing device like a paintball mask. If the dust gets into you eye it will abrade it very bad and it is extremely uncomfortable.
 
I do a lot of automotive customization so I've got safety goggles, respirators and welding masks lying around. :) So I'm pretty much covered there. :)
 
on the aircraft i build, i cut finished carbonfiber with a dremel and cut off wheel, with the nessesary safety equipment, which was well covered here =]
 
I'm gonna try and tackle this, this weekend. That is if I can find a pattern that is simple to make. ,
 
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