Carbon Fiber 3D printer January 28, 2014 08:33PM |
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gmh39
That's awesome! I would totally buy that. I wonder how he prints the CF, since typically it needs to be soaked with some kind of epoxy then vacuum sealed.
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That's awesome! I would totally buy that. I wonder how he prints the CF, since typically it needs to be soaked with some kind of epoxy then vacuum sealed.
In mass production settings, carbon fiber comes in "prepreg" weave, where the manufacturer soaks the material in a special epoxy formulation that doesn't harden until heated in an autoclave (under vacuum) per a specified ramp temperature time/curve chart. Many need to be kept in a refrigerator for long-term storage. The benefit is that you can get the best carbon-to-resin ratio this way, and it is easy to lay out in molds.
From the cutaway picture, this printer appears to be laying down a continuous carbon fiber yarn/filament, like a filament winder for making CF tubes. With some sort of continuous prepreg CF yarn/filament being heat-triggered by the extrusion nozzle, it doesn't seem implausible to lay a *continuous* bead of CF yarn/filament down with a little tweaking to a 3D printer.....
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Buback
it will be stronger than typical pla or abs or whatever, but it's still got the same issues with inter-layer strength, i assume.
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even i am curious about the mechanism he uses to cut a yarn at the end of a layer.
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