How heat resistant is carbon fiber? Options

[dabazied]

Just wondering how heat resistant it is, meaning real carbon fiber or even like if you go through the process of wrapping yourself, like with the hardener and the cloth and all that stuff. Just curious.

[Special_Edy]

First off real carbon fiber is not available for DIY to my knowledge. Its ninety percent resin and only ten percent carbon fiber matting. The resin itself is so hard when dried that ninety percent of a f1 chassis or airplane fuselage is resin. I was told by a carbon fiber bicycle manuacturer rep that if it gets on anything including your hands you are SOL.

If carbon fiber was tolerant of heat we would see carbon fiber blocks(sleeved of course), pistons, crankshafts and rods on F1 engines by now. Unfourtunately I dont think it can handle the temperature water boils at.

[Nial]

If carbon fiber was tolerant of heat we would see carbon fiber blocks(sleeved of course), pistons, crankshafts and rods on F1 engines by now. Unfourtunately I dont think it can handle the temperature water boils at.

F1 brake discs are carbon fibre and opperate at 1200degC

http://www.f1technical.net/articles/2