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Title: Carbon Fiber Drag Material
Post by: nipsip on March 14, 2011, 10:22:54 PM
Sold in Sheets

AvCarb®Carbon Fiber Products Carbon Drag Washer Material from Ballard

www.ballard.com/files/pdf/Spec_Sheets/Fishing_Case_Study.pdf
Title: Re: Carbon Fiber Drag Material
Post by: mackereljoe on March 18, 2011, 12:49:34 AM
Looks great, but didn't see prices or ordering information.  Also, don't have confident in my ability to cut and trim this things.
Title: Re: Carbon Fiber Drag Material
Post by: Makule on February 24, 2012, 04:48:07 AM
Kind of an old thread, but did anyone find a reason not to just cut brake disks our of carbon fiber sheet material when the needed size is not available?

Here's another link with prices.

http://dragonplate.com/ecart/categories.asp?cID=66 (http://dragonplate.com/ecart/categories.asp?cID=66)
Title: Re: Carbon Fiber Drag Material
Post by: Nessie Hunter on February 24, 2012, 06:33:26 PM
I have done it several times, not hard to do and easy to cut & shape...

I think Dawn at Smoothedrags was offering sheets of Carbontex ???? 
Title: Re: Carbon Fiber Drag Material
Post by: Makule on February 24, 2012, 08:55:08 PM
I have a couple of old Shimano Beastmasters I'm working on for a customer.  They are the  130 size and the brakes need changing.  Will try the carbon fiber w/ grease and see how it does.
Title: Re: Carbon Fiber Drag Material
Post by: redsetta on February 24, 2012, 09:19:00 PM
Being in NZ and a long way from anywhere, I often cut and customise CF drag washers.
I get the basic dimensions and shape with my wife's dressmaking sissors, then perfect it with a file and/or grinder.
Works great... Which reminds me, I need to order another sheet. ;)
Cheers, Justin
Title: Re: Carbon Fiber Drag Material
Post by: Norcal Pescador on February 25, 2012, 03:16:55 AM
Quote from: redsetta on February 24, 2012, 09:19:00 PM
Being in NZ and a long way from anywhere, I often cut and customise CF drag washers.
I get the basic dimensions and shape with my wife's dressmaking sissors, then perfect it with a file and/or grinder.
Works great... Which reminds me, I need to order another sheet. ;)
Cheers, Justin
Yikes! If I got caught using the wife's scissors, she'd do some trimming of her own and I know I wouldn't like it! ;)
Title: Re: Carbon Fiber Drag Material
Post by: Dominick on February 25, 2012, 09:21:35 PM
Quote from: norcal pescador on February 25, 2012, 03:16:55 AM
Yikes! If I got caught using the wife's scissors, she'd do some trimming of her own and I know I wouldn't like it! ;)
Probably in the Lorena Bobbit style.   :'(  Dominick
Title: Re: Carbon Fiber Drag Material
Post by: Alto Mare on February 25, 2012, 10:59:55 PM
Ouch!...Thanks for the warning guys. I better stop messing with her stuff, I'm not done using my tools just yet ;).