ChrisW
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| posted on 20/10/03 at 11:10 AM |
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Carbon fibre sheet
As above... how much is it and where from? Wondering about doing my interior panels in it purely as a 'look nice' but depends on
price!
Chris
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locoboy
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| posted on 20/10/03 at 11:36 AM |
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Mega bucks!
Got infor from a company selling it a Stafford this year
80cm x 122cm 0.46mm thick + £134 +vat!
80cm x 122cm 1.2mm thick £227 + vat
has that made your mind up for you? 
ATB
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ChrisW
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| posted on 20/10/03 at 12:01 PM |
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Hmm.. yeah I think it has!! What about carbon effect plastic?? 
Chris
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dozracing
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| posted on 20/10/03 at 12:21 PM |
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Hi Chris,
Carbon is around £20 per square metre and its 0.23 mm thick per ply. So 0.46mm thick is only 2 plies of carbon fibre and should therefore cost £40 per
square metre plus a little extra for the labour and autoclave/oven curing overhead.
I'm trying to gear up to take a few samples of carbon sheet and carbon angle for making brackets from, to a show. I'll also be applying
what i believe to be more realistic pricing to the job as well. So you'll get more for less money if you like.
Kind regards,
Darren
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dozracing
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| posted on 20/10/03 at 12:23 PM |
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Carbon effect plastic looks ok from a distance and is an option. Up close its pretty obviously not carbon, but, its considerably cheaper. I'm
buying some mirror sheet soon and the suppliers do carbon effect plasttic as well if you are interested in finding out the costs.
Kind regards,
Darren
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ChrisW
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| posted on 20/10/03 at 01:11 PM |
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Darren
Can you make up an 'all in one' transmission tunnel panel if I made a mould? What about an all in one 'tub' for the passenger
compartment? How much??
Chris
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spy
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| posted on 20/10/03 at 02:09 PM |
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Try www.plays-kool.co.uk. These guys are very well respected among the westfield posse. Their CF isn't too expensive IIRC.
quote:
Originally posted by ChrisW
As above... how much is it and where from? Wondering about doing my interior panels in it purely as a 'look nice' but depends on
price!
Chris
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ChrisW
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| posted on 20/10/03 at 11:19 PM |
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£650 for a panel set? I call that pretty pricey!! A quick measurement looks like 4m square would do it - by GTS' prices that's about
£80.
Darren - have emailled you re the above post
Chris
[Edited on 20/10/03 by ChrisW]
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spy
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| posted on 21/10/03 at 02:07 PM |
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Hmm... I've only just seen the prices on the pdf download. Not that cheap after all.
quote:
Originally posted by ChrisW
£650 for a panel set? I call that pretty pricey!!
Chris
[Edited on 20/10/03 by ChrisW]
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Rob Lane
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| posted on 22/10/03 at 08:27 AM |
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Paul at Playskool had his Westie interior ali panels anodized in Gold.
Looks absolutely brilliant and didn't cost much I believe.
One thing to remember though is that a small tunnel side panel will shrink by 1/2mm (half) when anodized.
They do a range of colours, purple is nice.
I used to do some anodizing myself but getting the acid is now very difficult plus it's a dangerous operation.
Look in Yellow Pages under 'Platers' for enquiries.
[Edited on 22/10/03 by Rob Lane]
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Surrey Dave
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| posted on 22/10/03 at 10:28 AM |
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Anodised Ally
I believe that Alcan offered anodised sheets for sale when I built mine, was tempted to have Gold side panels ,but thought they would look grim if
scratched.......
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RichyMkIndy
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| posted on 16/11/03 at 12:31 PM |
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get the real carbon dash from MK for £30 hehe
or the one from Mac one which is a full centre console job for £70
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Hellfire
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| posted on 28/11/03 at 01:08 AM |
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Just browsing around Haflords during the week and noticed some Carbon-fibre sticky. Must be honest - it looked good and was available in a number of
colours blue/black/yellow/red. It was manufactured by the same company that does the HT Caliper 2 pack paint stuff, thingy, whats-it! It was quite
pricey but I guess you could buy it for probably half that if you searched hard enough!
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andkilde
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| posted on 18/12/03 at 09:09 PM |
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I've seen dashboards done in thin Phenolic sheet -- is available in a few different colors (most common is G10, sort of a glossy brown with
fiber showing -- I've also seen translucent black and green as used for circuit boards).
Quite inexpensive, any local industrial plastics supplier should have some in stock to look at.
Cheers, Ted
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