I thought I was done with forged carbon fiber, but this video is excellent, and has inspired me to give it another go. Right after I finish this ham sandwich.

Absolutely loved the camera trickery when you showed the 3d printer running while talking. Fastest 3d printer in the world!

This is, by far, the best company advertising I've ever seen on UKposts. Someday I hope to have our house and shop done so I can get this a try (I've done a lot of fiberglass work in the past). But, until then I still watch all your videos. These are awesome content.

Best composites content on youtube!

I see an easy composite video : I like the video first then I enjoy.

you have the smile of someone who earned their success

The stop motion knolling with sound effects at 9:24 is incredibly satisfying.

This will most likely blow up just like your last forged carbon video! Great job, thank you!

Still blown away these videos are free! Thank you guys so much I made brake levers for my goldwing after the first video and now after this I feel like my excf might need some 🤔

one of the best technical instructional channels out there. Informative and well presented. Order coming your way soon. That’s how it’s done folks.

Who knew these parts could look so good simply by not putting a ham sandwich in them

I just took delivery of your cast kit the other day, shipped halfway across the world, inspired by the previous video on the motorcycle engine cover. Can't wait to get started with this.

A new Easy Composites video?! LETS GOOOO

You guys.. these videos are so well thought out, jam packed with all the needed information and of the highest quality with the greatest attention to details. Already a customer, and I shall keep recommending easy composites. Keep up the fantastic work

I have had quite the success in following the last forged cf video, having made myself a set of thru axle rear dropouts for a bike frame. Thank you for encouragement, knowledge and inspiration to take on a new hobby, would never happen if not for this channel.

You guys know how to sell your products. You make such excellent, detailed videos that one can only appreciate the effort. I'm on the other side of the planet on a tiny rock but I am yet to find any company that comes remotely close to what you guys are doing and so you're getting some of my money as soon as I am ready to learn and do some composite work on my project car. Cheers.

That was one fast printer! Still waiting for that video on moldless construction with infusion over sacrificial 3D print. Also do a video on fasteners suitable for composite work and embedding metal parts into composites. Another problem I saw with anyone making videos on composites - almost nobody makes structural parts, its all hoods, covers, shells and the like, glad to see something different here.

I’m usually dumbfounded by some YT channels with high number subscribers, turning out poor quality, practically Usless and non educational content . This channel has got to be in the top 10 and dare I say it TOP channel for technical quality, video production, professionalism and manners to name a few . It puts the mainstream media including the BBC and many others to shame. You do genuinely deserve the views 👍🇬🇧.

So happy to see this video, I've been planning to try this method for FPV arms for a while, so seeing your approach is super helpful. This channel is an absolute gem!

I love the small editing flourishes put in!

Every video gets better than the one before. Thanks for these insights.

Kit worked great, was a bit disappointed it came chucked in a plain box with no instructions, but knew from the YT Video and my own manufacturing experience what to do. great kit Just wish the presentation was better! Thanks for revisiting this super cool stuff

The quality of your content is exceptional 👍. Highly appreciated.

The one and only paul, best notification on youtube what a guy!

Paul from Easy Composites, the hero we need!

This is a great vid! I'm definitely using this method when building suspension parts for my streamliner later this year. 😀

I use this method to make components for my recumbent trikes. Cranks, suspension arms, etc. I'm glad more people are learning of these techniques from you! Most can't CNC aluminum at home, but with your methods they can get similar stiffness very easily.

Thank you so much for making this video Paul!!!

Your videos are fantastic. Basically one of the best tutorials and education on UKposts.

Curses! Just days after my order you add the long strand to the kit 😆 Great you're listening to feedback and yet again a great video.

Great video. Really enjoy your tutorials on composite manufacture.

Super video...great production as always

great video and great explanation as usual. I will need to design a part to use this process!

It's incredibly satisfying to read the comments on your vids. Everyone seems to genuinely positive. Also great advertising for your products. Whenever i see carbon fiber i think of you guys now.

That 3d print timelapse edit at 9:00 is real slick, man.

Just when I thought your videos couldn’t get any better, you drop this one! Thank you so much for sharing your amazing knowledge with the world. I’m so looking forward to creating my own forged parts. I think I’ll start with my old school Kent 1600 Xflow Cosworth rocker cover for my mk1 escort. Then I’ll try an inlet manifold for twin DCOE Weber carburettors. Thanks again!!! 🇦🇺🤜🏼🤛🏼😎🍀☮️☮️☮️

Damn good job as allways. You make crazy fine parts. Love it.

Superb video as always mate and awesome work on the parts.

Superb video quality!!!

As always, thanks for the great video!

Excellent as always!

I like to think of 'forged carbon' as the oriented strand board (OSB) of composites. Some things you would never construct with it - but often it's strong enough for the job and really doesn't matter.

Your videos are very informative and appreciated! please continue making them

Moment Paul said Hi was the moment I had to give Like button right away

Brilliant engineering skills! Thank you so much for sharing!

Your workshop is amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Steven Spielberg of composites tutorials strikes again!

Great video and useful tips. Thanks a lot

thank you for another excellent video. especially for the extended cad on your website. you are like the titans of cnc of carbon composite but much cheaper to set up in your garage at home! 😄

thanks so much, will definitely use those design tips soon

excellent video ! you have saved many hours and hours of frustration and learning curve has certainly been reduced in forging forwards ;)

Fantastic! Thank you for you amazing how to videos! 👌

Been watching your videos and they are great.

love your videos and your enthousiasm, you look very passionate about your work and that make it entertainig and very interesting. thanks for sharing your knowledge. if one day 'll make the step from fiber glass to carbon it be hanks to you

The best of UKposts. Seriously.

Epic stuff as always there is no competition!

I haven't bought my 3D printer yet but you've just given me the ultimate use case.

Liked, commented, shared, downloaded, thank you!!!

Nice edit of the 3d printing!!!

Thank you!!

love these videos

Love your content.

Gosh I love this channel

como siempre los mejores videos sobre la fibra de carbono

Top job🎉

Is there any virtue in offsetting the surfaces slightly more and building up a few layers of primer with an airbrush on order to improve the surface quality of the mould? Back when I worked in F1 we used TB650 and often that was pained post machining to improve the part quality. I can’t see how it wouldn’t help in this application…. I’m keen to get myself one of these kits and have a play. It’s brilliant that these kinds of technologies, coupled with the quality of consumer 3D printers these days, means that Joe Schmoe in his garage can knock out some decent quality carbon parts. The world truly is your lobster these days. Great vid as ever @easycomposites

Super la vidéo 😊😊

Good to see this😊

You guys are so cool.... great video again. I love it.

FPV love!!

Your back!

Absolutely awesome, as always such an amazing high quality production and packed with information! One question for you, what about using Delrin for the mold?

I started 3D printing watching your videos, loved to see how fast can print that Ultimaker!! 🤣🤣🤣

professional video

If you want to improve the strength of the drone arm even more with this method, you could have the long fibers added first and last, and using the chopped ones as a "core". Although it will be not as visually appealing as the chopped fibers. One solution for this is to add a very thin layer of chopped fibers, then half of the long ones, fill the mould with almost the rest of the chopped, and lastly the other half of the long fibers with some chopped ones over it for aesthetics.

This is a great video. Now I'm waiting for the full fordge engine with high temperature resins in the pistons and Conrods.

i love these videos and i love your workshop 😎, very inspiring 👍🏻. usually i am having a problem and look for solutions in youtube. here it is the other way round 😂.

Great vid, I keep saying one of these days I'll do a carbon fiber mold

A bonnet with a layer of short cut carbon fibers on the outside for optics and woven carbon fiber on the inside for strength would look simply out of this world.

Bought the forged carbon and prepreg kit to get to know how carbon fiber parts are made. Well I've made like 3 parts for my motorcycle out of the forged carbon fiber, now looking to replace the TC80 with resin printed molds as i'm already familiar with 3d modelling and I can be lazier lmao. Thanks guys for bringing this knowledge with the kits to the general population :)

Дякую! Thanks !!!

Great to see the Fusion 360 integration into the processes

와 멋지다 나도해보고 싶네요😊😊

9:10 sick edit! 👍

Another GREAT video. One detail though, for the drone arm: you've got the long tow fibers going down the middle of the part. You needed to do that because they don't flow like the chopped tow, and you used chopped tow near the surfaces of the part to get better conformation to the mold. But this is a problem. That part is stressed in cantilever. The centerline of the part sees essentially no stress at all, which means your long tow fibers are right where they do the least good. I'm not suggesting you've made a mistake. Rather, I think there's a fundamental tension here in designing forged carbon fiber parts, that all of us are going to have to deal with. I'd really like to see you address that tension in the high-quality way that you've made all these videos. Various approaches I can imagine: * In your suspension part, you've got the axis of compression across the width of the beam. This makes it practical for you to push the long tow fibers towards the areas of maximum stress. Good solution. * You might load the drone arm first with long tow fibers, then chopped tow fibers, then finish with long tow fibers. I don't know how well this will conform to the mold. I'd also like to see a discussion of where the air bubbles go. How do you avoid voids in the finished part? My guess is that you are dissolving the air into the epoxy by applying pressure. Is that true, and does it determine some minimum pressure that is needed to get a good void-free part?

An excellent update to the process and understanding. 1 thing that could be addressed in the strength and stiffness tests and comparisons, is comparing a forged carbon components to an equivalent volume cast aluminium component. Looking at the process and potential for things that could be produced this way, creating things that would otherwise be a cast aluminium part, could be really worthwhile. My thinking is for producing custom car parts. Not necessarily for the looks, but for the real world application. An inlet manifold is 1 thing. But how about a bellhousing to create a unique gearbox and engine combination? Where a creative person might come up with a bespoke mount for an older engine, to attach a power steering pump, a more modern alternator or an air conditioner compressor. Or something that incorporates 2 of those components.

3:44 That's quite a sound effect! I have a feeling whoever edited the video was not wearing headphones with good bass... Or was that a huge vehicle passing by the shop?

When I saw the first video it was a real "ah ha" moment! I've made several parts using this technique and I absolutely love having it in my RC hobby toolkit! I might try making those arms just to build that quad!

God I love this channel

Interesting to see those layer lines on the part! So you straight mould with the 3D parts after 2 passes of RW spray, and not sand and polish the prints before waxing. So 0.1mm lines height is enough to have so little lock to avoid prints postproduction. It's a lot of time saved! Cool!

Been wanting to do this for years since I saw your first video. But no shipping to Iceland. But anyways, great work on the comprehensive guides

Amazing video again! Very useful info of how deep to make the cavity it is something i have been struggling whit until now. An other problem i had particularly on small features is air entrapment and fibers not flowing in correctly. it is not a packing problem (usually appears on the piston side), it can be a compression problem but i do not have access to other than hand clamps, so i was thinking i could use vibration to help the process. In your experience could this help or just make things worse?

Hi , love all your videos and hope to one day make some custom parts at home, do you guys have any opinions on triaxial carbon fiber?

I learned incredible amounts from your videos and continue to do so and use these techniques, thank you! BTW the 22.04 @ 12:56 is supposed to be 18,16g, that threw me off for a sec there!😅

Another great video! When I tried doing some forged carbon after your last video, I struggled a bit with small air bubbles being trapped. Is there anything you can recommend to minimise that risk?

Hey guys I´m a big fan of your videos :) Sometimes unfortunately I get dry spots and other imperfections in my laminates. Obviously it would be better to prevent those in the first place. But in a formula student team with limited resources it would come in handy to know how to fix those imperfections without laminating a new part. Perhaps you can give me some useful tips or you might have enough ideas for a new upcoming video. Thank you in advance. Keep up the good work

You should have the long tow at the surface of the part. The shear stress is largest at the central plane running the length of the part, where the fibre direction should be parallel to the force applied. I’m sure that unreinforced epoxy would be plenty strong for drone parts but basic stress characteristics are very useful for these projects

Great video. I expected some sort of oven curing but I guess it’s not needed or wouldn’t add any additional benefit?

I was doing work like this in the early 1980's except my moulds were created by pouring mould making epoxy compound around a master pattern. A bit trickier but overall it worked quite well.

You should try something like 60% infiil, but with adaptative cubic or equivalents, un my esperience, works really well.