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Restoring an old carbon fibre can...
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The Pig's nine years old this month and the carbon fibre muffler's lost
much of the outer resin coating down to the weave due to sun/weather and
is looking a bit mottled and tatty.
Is it possible to get it recoated with resin, or at the very least, a
new carbon fibre outer shell installed over the old one? The rest of the
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Working with CF is like fiberglass, this shouldnt be a hard task to do
I wouldnt think.. we did it on RGV's and my KR1S back in the day once
they had been downa couple a times.
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You were repairing CF cans on your RGVs and KR1S' yourself 15 years
ago biggus ? Colour me skeptical.
No, working with CF isn't like working with fibreglass, to make a CF
component isn't just a case of getting a bit of CF material slapping
some epoxy on it and letting it set.
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I knew a bloke who was making his own carbon fibre parts for his bike
about 15 yrs ago. He was still a uni student at the time.
Nev..
'04 CBR1100XX
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muffler is stainless and looks and works as well as new. Just can't see
myself paying a grand or so for a new one when the wear is only cosmetic...
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You may be able to carefully sand back the resin until it's smooth and
recoat using clear coat, take that with a grain of salt though I've
not tried.
The Formule 1 / pipemasters guys in Tamworth definitely make carbon
clad cans from scratch (I had one of theirs on the bandit) so they
should be able to do a recoat, there's probably a pipe manufacturer
closer to you who could also do it. Geelong Carbon craft moved to the
Gold Coast I think, so that'd be marginally closer.
There's no reason you should have to get the can reclad unless the
labour cost to recoat it exceeds just getting it reclad
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