Drilling carbon fibre

[Paul Marx]

Can one drill carbon fibre without it fraying?
I have a pair of painted carbon side panels from Boba for my 3C. Can I just drill them for the tangs of the side panel badges or would it be preferable to just stick the badges on?

Paul

 

[T.C]

Can drill Carbon fibre, no drammar Paul.

 

[BOETJE]

Depending how much resin is used, it will mostly fray a bit.
Use a new sharp drill bit , suppor the area where you drill with a piece of wood.

 

[Haggis]

Very high rpm hss drill up to dia 3mm. Then, very high speed tapered nose grinding stone from there. Dremel is your friend. Half melt, half cut.

 

[chrisk]

I just drill it, no splinters, just drills nicely. Although I was a little nervous when I drilled the hole in my carbon fuel tank.

 

[Andy J]

The only thing you have to worry about is breathing in the dust...

 

[Vince]

Put a bit of masking tape where you drill, makes marking easier and less chance of the bit slipping.

 

[Paul Marx]

Thanks for the tips concerning drilling.

I got the side panels from Boba within the last 6 months.

Paul

 

[CLEMTOG]

burn the holes Paul, just heat a pin of the right diameter to red hot and pierce it through, it leaves a ridge witch for glueing the badge pins on wont matter a jot and leaves the (mini) hole reinforced against future cracking,
CLEM

 

[wdietz186]

I've found that using a bit designed for drilling plexiglas works well on carbon fiber along with fiberglass. The tip is ground to about a 60 deg. angle so it bites a smaller area as you drill through. If you have a scrap bit and a fairly fine grit grinding stone you could grind one yourself.

 

[Sir Sidney Ruffdiamond]

I used double sided tape - they are going nowhere

 

[motoddrob]

You don't need to burn a hole in carbon, just drill it. No need for fancy drill bits, just drill the hole. It's not plexiglass.

 

[T.C]

See first reply Rob......
Lets see if we can get this thread to page two FFS.
Its not rocket science.... drill the fucker

 

[Paul Marx]

Ok, I'll burn the side panels and keep the holes. Even lighter.

Paul

 

[chrisk]

Ok, I'll burn the side panels and keep the holes. Even lighter.

Paul

Would they be sideburns?

 

[CLEMTOG]

no, they would be fully floating badges, nearly as good as high lift speedos.
CLEM

 

[Tippie]

nearly as good as high lift speedos.
CLEM

Budgie smugglers?

 

[chrisk]

no, they would be fully floating badges, nearly as good as high lift speedos.
CLEM

Like these?

 

[Andy]

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Like these?

No.
Not like those.
Not at all.
No no no.

Just no...

(are we on page 2 yet..? )

 

[julian]

Just make sure that if you are drilling your new Carbon fairing and you have a nice 80 euro screen behind it the drill does not crack the fucking wanky bastard fucking buggering fucking screen on your last fucking fucking fucking hole!!!!
Just like I did the other day! FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

J (Twat)