Building a Composites Oven for Carbon Fiber Parts 

As far as the electrical side there are some great YT tutorials on wiring a PID to control your oven...that's what I used when I built my powder coat oven.

Awesome info! Thanks for sharing with all of us.

You are a skilled composites tech and have great creative talent but my favorite thing about you is, you are a real dude- no BS.

I have a question about about curing carbon fiber... do you NEED to heat cure it? I've seen people talk about making carbon fiber panels, but this is the first time I've seen people talk about using an oven, but to be honest, the stated reason doesn't seem to apply to my proposed use case, as i don't really care about are bubbles and whatnot... all i need it to do is be able to do a heat bend at one end after it's cured, and i don't so much care if it's vacuum bagged or even heat cured, as it only needs to lay somewhat flat for use as a screw-on side panel for a small bicycle baby trailer, and all i care about is making a flat panel that's approximately 2ft x 2-3ft fir each side, and a longer one for the back, that would then get bent on the top end... Also, another question, is it possible to take already made panels, and connect them together, especially top/rear panels that have a curve, being connected to 2 matching side panels that will eventually just slide over said trailer frame and attach with a couple of screws or already existing frame bolts? Basically, the whole thing put together would replace the original canvas top enclosure, and I'll eventually make it weather resistant...

I'd like to watch you build a wing with the vacuum method.

honestly this whole set up is so big brain

Love this: simple, cheap and effective.

at what temp the oven works?

Halo bro, please make vidio tutorial blade longfins carbon or fiberglas on vacum proces ❤

Great videos, thank you. Can you recommend an online retailer/wholesaler for carbon fiber cloth?

An oven made out of wood ???? I'm an industrial designer. That might be cheap but it's extremely dangerous. Pay extra for sheet metal and a welder fabricator and DO IT RIGHT. If you have the funds you can also buy a giant home propane tank or a giant delivery tank from an 18 wheeler and turn it into an actual autoclave (with vacuum pressure)

Aj I see you have two vac pumps connected to one another. Is this simply to add more pull power? Wonderful tutorial, I love how simple your heater solution is, been watching a lot of videos of people doing all sorts of creative electrical and oven things, yours is just simple and straight forward haha.

Hi, I've seen in your other videos that you have huge cutting table. Wanted to ask you what kind of surface material did you use to be able to cut with pizza cutter and not have the surface ruined? I guess anything else would be damaged by it and sliding fabric over the cuts would pull some fibers and make distorsions. Thanks

Thanks for this video. Huge help 🧤🧤🧤

Any need for a "bathroom fan" to vent fumes outside while/after drying, instead of just opening door, venting into the rest of your shop?

So pretty much the main reason someone should use a cure oven is just to speed up the process?

Great work.

Awesome video. Are you doing this because you reside in a cold climate, or is there a benefit to curing in elevated temps?

Ive been wondering but for small parts can I just stick my parts in a normal oven?

What heat cycle do you use for your parts?

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Good video bud. I take it your under bench oven was built the same ??

Very good video !

Man I've been wanting to do that for years

Can i ask the main difference for not post curing and using the oven ?

Thanks for the info!

you use pre-peg fiber in the oven

why on earth would you not put heaters on 220 v and use half the power? FYI those two double breakers you say are not needed are 220V.

looking forward to future updates. Let us know when you are up and running again.

Looks good. Gives me some motivation to start on my pre-preg oven. I'd be curious to see the temperature delta between the interior and exterior panels after several hours of running.

are you going to build Airplanes ? oven is far too big.

Awesome video. I do carbonfiber overlay. Use West System epoxy. Should I build a Box with electric heaters to help them Cure? @karbon_workz