Where did the carbon fibre go?

[starscream5000]

http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/85/i08/8508notw2.html

I caught a couple of minutes of the news this morning before going to work. The new Boeing 787's structure is greatly made up of carbon fiber. One of the largest companies out there producing carbon fiber for public and military uses is sending the majority of it's products to Boeing for the constrution of the +200 787's scheduled to be produced in the near future :3d_frown:.

Duane, you got your carbon fiber business up and running again? :naughty:

 

[speed]

Uh no shit sherlock. Been coverd like a billion zillion gazillion trizillion times.

 

[starscream5000]

I knew we had a shortage :nuts: just thought I'd like to show some people one of the major places it's going to .

Why do you think I named the thread the way I did?

 

[JustAnotherVictim]

I got it. :dunno:

 

[iwannadie]

I thought it was really old news boeing was using it all up...

 

[speed]

o sorry i didn't catch it.


i r the dummlozers

 

[starscream5000]

I thought it was really old news boeing was using it all up...

Not exactly, Boeing is just sucking one of the major companies dry of carbon fiber, there are other companies out there too that mass produce it, (named in the link provided). They may send some of their product boeings way too, but it also goes to military uses. The public is only getting a very small slice of the product though. It doesn't seem to be as hard to get a CF product now as it was several months ago. Maybe due to larger quanties being produced now :dunno:

 

[speed]

if someone engineered a more efficient way to produce carbon fibre they'd be fucking rich.

 

[starscream5000]

I'm not sure exactly how it's made (haven't looked really) but they do turn out some impressive numbers already. I say open up a few more factories and that could help. Hell, the cost of making new factories *should* be gained back fairly quickly with how the damand is so high in this day and age...

 

[foreverpsycotic]

yeah, but then prices go down. right now demand>supply = higher prices = more profit. supply > demand = lower prices = lower profit.

 

[theKnifeArtist]

so how do you make carbon fiber?

 

[Big Wang Bandit]

In the Oven, Duh.

 

[BorHor]

OMG KYLE MAKES ME SOME!

 

[RazoE]

the CF went to my hood...


take that, Bush...

 

[Ric]

no vacuum, no good.

 

[speed]

you don't NEED a vaccuum to get carbon to set, like for any interior parts or dress up parts you really don't need to have it in an autoclave. But if its structural, you bet your ass it better be in an autoclave!

 

[figgie]

Boeingn 787 + Airbus A380 + Lockheed F22 = CF shortage.

 

[Ric]

I've seen interior panels done without a vacuum, looked like wavey asshole. The person that did it was probably just stupid.

 

[speed]

I've seen interior panels done without a vacuum, looked like wavey asshole. The person that did it was probably just stupid.

They probably were. Even with a vacuum you can still get wavey weave. its all in how you lay down the cloth and then apply the resin. if you adjust things after you've applied the resin you're pretty much fucked.

 

[Ric]

I want the wood trim in my SC overlayed in CF.. but eh, ive never seen it done nicely.


wood looks horrible
http://1jzgte.us/upload/files/1/interiordone.jpg