Working with Carbon Fiber (Panals)

[focusedrage]

lets say i get a carbon fiber panal, 1/8 inch thick...

can it be bent? heated up and bent? bent at sharp (90 degree) angles?

can it be glued with two part epoxy?

Im talking about working with pre mad panels, not the cloth and resin

 

[97GS-TSpyder]

no dude youll end up distorting the panels looks. I tried that to make a carbon fiber center console but it looked like crap so there went like 100 bucks in CF...but CF is still pretty!!

 

[focusedrage]

what exactly wer you makin?

 

[97GS-TSpyder]

the center console....ya know in between the seats...im gonna end up just sending all my stuff to EDASHKIT.COM and getting it all overlayed

 

[focusedrage]

OHH... im just gonna put a pannal covering the whole thing, and remount everythign... how do you go about cuttign carbon fiber?