Lets make a handle. In my case for the door. The door opens as soon as the latches open but it would be nice to have something to also push on from a wear pattern standpoint. There are several ways to do this. Think about it this way. You drape a wet napkin over something and let it dry or should I say cure. Once that is done you have a piece of hardware. The issue is that wet napkins are somewhat difficult to hog tight corners, let lone right angles. You can make a compression mold. Ie, you lay up in a should we say cup. Carefully massaging the fiber in place. Then you push in a foam plug that is a few mm smaller. Or you drape the fibers over the foam plug and then install the cup like you done a bicycle hellllmuuuut. Get my drift???? That takes work as you have to create a mold, but with a bit of practice you can make a good one and make several prints and sell..... ehhh....uhmmmmm trade it for beer among friends. Never have to buy beer again.
An easier way would be to just drape the epoxy saturated fiber sheets over the foam plug (Wet Napkin) and then use an elastic tape like electrical tape or in my case urethane tape to tightly wrap the wet napkin draped foam plug. Savy......
That is what I will show you now.
I had the foam in the hanger and the project is now home so I used wood. Made a plug.....
Then installed it in a vise by means of two 3 inch screws...
Treated the plug with several layers of release agent.
Tape at the ready.
Then draped the stack of 5 layers of epoxy saturated carbon fiber (Wet Napkin) over the plug, carefully massaging it into place.
Then wrapped it tightly with the tape.
There needs to be tension. The more the better. However picture wrapping a stack of pan cakes......with syrup. Could be fun. Takes a little to get use to and how to wrap it and where to begin, but with a bit of practice it is easy.
Now curing.
