Carbon fiber restoration
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Hey br/o/s
Friend offered me some cash if i can restore his carbon fiber. I took the job thinking it would just take a new clear coat, but this looks absolutely dicked.
The thing is, it only looks like this dry. When it's wet, it regains that beautiful cross-hatched patterns we love. How would I go about restoring this?
If you have no experience with carbon fiber don't fuck with it.
It's all too easy to ruin everything
>>14890698
silicone lubricating spray, you'll get it from upholstery suppliers, its inert and therefore wont react in any way. spray it on , rub the excess off with a dry clean cloth.
If it's already like than then anything you'll do will only be temporary
Tell him to buy a new one, don't cheap out this time
>>14890713
also this
>>14890698
Wetsand with 1000 grit
Use light polish to finish it off
Spray clear coat
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PROfit?
>>14890898
polish before clear?
what will the clear adhere to?
clear then polish.
>>14890698
ok anon listen to me I am an auto body specialist
theres the carbon fiber part on the bottom and
on the surface there is a UV protectant clear coat, similiar to what you would find on regular paint.
There is no way to tell how much clear coat is left on the surface without special thickness gauges that you wont be able to get and use properly so you have to just hedge your bets that its still thick enough to work with.
You can still succesfully refinish the part assuming there is some original clear left.
Scuff up the surface with a scotchbrite pad and make it uniform all around. Clean it off with water and a microfiber cloth. Apply about 2 coats of Home Depot clear coat in a can spraying 10 mins between each coat. Once you have the two coats down and let them dry for 2 DAYS you are going to take some very fine wetsanding paper, like 2000 grit, and sand the surface extremely flat, From there you can either re-apply the clear and hope it comes out with no imperfections, OR you can spend alot of elbow grease polishing the now-cloudy clear down to shine with some Meguiar's Ultimate Compound.
If you have never repainted something in your life then disregard all of that because your going to mess up somewhere.
its because it isn't clear coat that carbon parts have on it that gives it its gloss. its a finish coat applied during the layup process you dumbass.
>>14890907
You would clean it before spraying just like anything else.
>clear then polish.
Yea, if you need to get rid of orange peel or need extra shine.
It's the gel epoxy, and not polyester?
>>14890938
Thanks for the input, I'll look into it
