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Hey Jason, What you're looking for is often called Tooling Board or Modeling Board. I believe you can epoxy some of this tooling board together if you can't find larger pieces elsewhere. @Emily Lewis at Rock West Composites may be able to help you out with sourcing some!

I have not! It looks like they're pretty close to me here in California though 🙂

I 3D print quite a bit! I've been wanting to incorporate carbon fiber into some of my prints for a while now. One thing I've been thinking about doing is adding in some carbon fiber stringers internally to the prints. I think the best way to do this is to make a void in the 3D model for the stringer, print up to the top layer of the void, add the stringer, and resume the print. I've also been wanting to try out carbon fiber infused filament, but I hear it's rather rough on nozzles. Have you tried any of the CF filaments yet?

Something I've been thinking about adding is an overview section, maybe even a couple of videos. Is this something you and @jenn4536would be interested in?

Welcome @Dave K.! Great to have you onboard. Did you start out in aerospace or did you work your way into it?

Absolutely! Between composites and 3D printing, there is so much to leverage. Many things that used to be impossible, near-impossible, or extremely difficult can now be achieved in hours. It's pretty nuts! I'm really excited to see the kinds of vehicles that will come out over the next decade thanks to this technology! Who knows what's gone into the B-21 Raider, for example, but I'd bet it's just the tip of the iceberg that we'll see over the next few decades as these materials evolve.

Easy Composites has a YouTube channel with some pretty great tutorials on various carbon fiber techniques and processes. The link to their YouTube channel is https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7F-suscQATns3qRYHpyijw

This is awesome! Thanks for sharing @AJ Sawyer I love factory videos! It's definitely quite a bite more involved than I would have thought. The video from HEAD was especially interesting with all of the different combinations of prepreg they use to form the racket. Have you made one of these carbon fiber rackets before?

They sure are! You can find them online, though they've become ubiquitous enough that you can can definitely find them locally at a sporting goods stores https://www.dickssportinggoods.com/a/carbon-fiber-tennis-racquet-0aqz00a.html

Not yet. It's probably going to be a while unless I can graft the frame from the OEM mirrors. Not sure what the best approach is TBH. But I will definitely be looking into it over the holiday break!

That seems excessive 😄 Those operate on vacuum right?

That is pretty darn cool @LuisSanX! Love the detailed fabrication steps 👍

I think carbon fiber bracelets would be pretty easy to make. In fact, you could make them out of some carbon fiber tubing then sand and clear coat it! I actually have a carbon fiber ring that @Adam gave me 🤣

There are some super lightweight options for drones out there. GoPro makes a couple that are under 200g. How about this action camera from Team Black Sheep? It's 56g with the battery. Running 1080p the camera above is supposed to last for 90mins which I'd think is plenty long enough. They have smaller cameras, but they seem to mostly use external power. On to the harness itself... usually with carbon fiber you need some sort of a mold. I imagine you can't put a cast on a hawk, but maybe it would be possible to scan it? Or use an existing model? I imagine it would go on the underside of the bird?

I think this would be a super cool! There are some pretty small drone cameras around. How much weight can these birds carry?

That's actually way less time than I would have thought. Did you just use a regular storm trooper set to make the molds?

I really like the keychain idea. I have a carbon fiber keychain that I like a lot. So much so that because it's my go-to set of keys and the fob battery now needs replacing way ahead of schedule 😄 I've been wanting to make some carbon fiber keychains as a side project, but time just hasn't allowed. What kind of keychain designs did you have in mind?

Sorry Richie, I'd missed this. So on the back of mirror covers for cars there are tabs that allow it to snap into the mirror covers. I can take a picture later and post it here.

Welcome to Composites Community! Great to have you onboard 🙂 What kinds of projects do you have in mind?

@John Kimball might have some resources. He actually teaches a composites class 🙂 Do you happen to have a link to that article!?

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Anyone have any interesting composites projects they're planning to work on over the holidays this year? 🙂 The only thing I have planned right now is to redo the carbon fiber vinyl I put on my side view mirrors. I still want to make some real CF mirror covers, but I'm stuck on how to go about making the tabs that are needed.

Would you mind sharing a Google Doc or something? 🙂

Hey @sfsailboat, wanted to check in and see how your project is coming along? 🙂

I was thinking you could actually use a size compatible with 80/20 as the connectors for it are much more common. Since anything aluminum needs to be anodized, you could use something like these nylon 3-way corner connectors and these nylon T connectors. You could also 3D print your own out of nylon, PETG, or a carbon fiber variant.