cutting carbon fibre

[warped]

As the title says.

How do people do it?

Am snapping fret saw blades left right and centre and it's getting expensive!

Cheers

[westie]

Hacksaw or jigsaw on med speed slow feed, metal blades

westwood

[bigred5765]

dremmel cutting disk

[bald eagle]

Whatever you do, wear a mask... nasty stuff to breathe in is carbon dust...

[Gaz_Stanton]

if doing any sort of volume it will need to be diamond blades. And these don't last too long either.
Quality carbon is not a nice material to work with...

[traffman]

As above carbon fibres a proper pig to work with .
I have the splinters to show , its the cf dust and teeny skelfs/splinters that you need to watch for .

[rowanp25]

lol skelfs! remember most ppl on here aint scotish

[traffman]

i know , good fun to confuse them.

[captain-codpiece]

I have never cut rc car parts, but when we used to cut carbon seatposts on bikes to size, we would use a hacksaw, but we would put some tape over where we were cutting, to help reduce the splinters and get a nice edge.

[dodgydiy]

Originally Posted by warped

As the title says.

How do people do it?

Am snapping fret saw blades left right and centre and it's getting expensive!

Cheers

get a tile cutter blade for a coping saw, cut to length and fit to the clamps on your fret saw, works a treat.
i use fret saw set up like this, i also use diamond disks on a dremel, and also have a small cnc cutter which will handle parts up to 220mm in length and 180mm wide which gets used for repeat parts, expensive to keep in mill bits tho. have also used a tile diamond disk in an angle grinder for long cuts to get them accurate. best tool to have for tidying edges and minor trimmings though is 80 grit aluminium oxide paper

[makumba]

To keep dust down, keep the cut wet. This will make sure the dust clumps in a sort of sludge rather than fly all over the place. Whenever I have to drill it I use a drop of water right on the bit, when cutting it may be a little bit more complicated but that's the idea. Never had any problems with dust ever.