Building a carbon frame?

singspeed
singspeed Posts: 18
edited March 2008 in Road general
I was thinking of taking up a new project - Taking my old steel road frame, making a jig out of its proportions, buying carbon fibre tubing of the same diameter and making a replica.

Is this doable? How would I go about joining the carbon tubing together?

Thanks

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  • Gavin Gilbert
    Gavin Gilbert Posts: 4,019
    A guy on the old forum did just this a long while back. George Crammond IIRC. This was back in the days when carbon frames were restricted to the impossibly expensive hig-end.
  • meagain
    meagain Posts: 2,331
    Buy a steel lug set? Adhesive and rivets? There's a very nice Nervex copmplete lug set on th'bay at moment! Main triangle presumably "doable" but the rear end might be more ingenuity-stretching!
    d.j.
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  • singspeed
    singspeed Posts: 18
    I was actually thinking of fixing all the carbon tubing and bottom bracket/head tube/seat tube/dropouts in place on a homemade jig, then pre impregnating carbon fibre and wrapping several layers around all joints before wrapping in shrink wrap tape and using a heat gun to compress it.

    Remember, I know very little about carbon fibre, so much reading and experimentation is needed, but does this procedure sound, well... sound?
  • Gavin Gilbert
    Gavin Gilbert Posts: 4,019
    meagain wrote:
    Buy a steel lug set? Adhesive and rivets? There's a very nice Nervex copmplete lug set on th'bay at moment! Main triangle presumably "doable" but the rear end might be more ingenuity-stretching!

    If you want to go that far I've 15 sets of 531DB under my bed I need to get rid of :? :wink:
  • Dickie
    Dickie Posts: 1,489
    Gavin,I will take those tube sets off your hands.

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