Anyone looking for Carbon Fiber?

[DrKnow65]

OK, here's the story. I have a good friend who used to build custom rock crawlers (the full sized ones) who just changed jobs to go work at a CF build company. When he told me this you all can guess what I beat into him for the next few hours Why RC CF needs of course

That was last week, and now that he's had a chance to look into it with the business it seems there is a good possibility to get some CF stuff done.

It's a small business making CF items from scratch, they weave their own fiber, make their own resin, and do testing in-house. So there is a good potential to get them involved in making some high quality parts for us (application specific weaving makes for a much stronger CF part).

There is also quite a bit of usable CF left over from trimmings and testing (I assume lots of flat pieces and some angle stuff) that could be sold as-is or mabey milled into specific parts?

The caution is that the molds to make 3D parts are extremely expensive to make so prototyping isn't going to happen without a real solid market for the piece. Think along the lines of $10,000 for a custom revo chassis mold, so they would have to sell over 100 chassis at $100 to make a penny on it.
This could work however if the demand was there. I could see something like Sike's direct drive revo with a custom chassis specificly made to mount the batteries, motor, electronics, ect or a hyper8 chassis with the motor mount, battery trays, servo mounts, ect all integrated.


So the topic is open, what are the ideas and needs you all have? any significant interest?