Carbon Fiber Mainbody. Do you think this is possible?

[amrani]

Lately ive been trying to carbon fiber out my mag, and i ran across something that seems quite interesting.

http://www.carbonfibertubeshop.com//index2.html

its a carbon fiber tube, which would be frickin sweet if i could get it cut to be a mainbody for a mag.

ne one think this is possible?

Rogue, Logic, and all other custom parts makers, your opinions are especially valued, and if you could make thise, i bet you would make a killing

[personman]

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It's probably possible... very tough to do, and very expensive however. I dont know if there are any sizes that would be good for it on that website.

[craltal]

getting it to withstand the stresses would be quite interesting. You'd have issues getting everything to fit together as securely as is needed without adding aluminum or titanium inserts. at which point you'd pretty much have a ULE body.

[amrani]

all fixed now :)

id probally search around a bit more, although if i needed to, i could machine (please dont correct my spelling any more, cuz i no i suck) a close size a little bit.

[amrani]

i think i might try it just for the fun of it, and to see what the people at my field say (see an earlier post of mine today)

[FooTemps]

me and nerobro talked about it back in the days of twistlock/preule. It's expensive and needs a lot of reinforcement

[Arstron]

If you just want the look, perhaps you could cut the carbon fiber to fit over an existing body. Another much cheaper route you could do, is to cover an existing body with a peice of carbon fiber vinyl (decal vinly).

[matt-o]

If you just want the look, perhaps you could cut the carbon fiber to fit over an existing body. Another much cheaper route you could do, is to cover an existing body with a peice of carbon fiber vinyl (decal vinly).

thats a quitter's attitude, and it wont lighten the gun. i dont think there are many stresses in the body if the sear holds back the bolt and it dosnt hold any pressure directly.

[personman]

thats a quitter's attitude, and it wont lighten the gun. i dont think there are many stresses in the body if the sear holds back the bolt and it dosnt hold any pressure directly.

You've got to worry about the bolt. It puts alot of pressure on the spring which puts alot of pressure on the body.

[amrani]

i think i can conquer the pressure the spring will be putting on the body. its kinda complicated, and i am too tired to try and type it all out. im going for the look, as well as lightening the gun if possible. i was going to just cover a body at first, but then this looked kinda interisting. depending on how much a short rod that i could make like 2 bodies out of would cost, this thing might just become a reality. after this, ill probally make some carbon fiber grips, and a trigger. after that, who knows what, might just get so good at it that id have to make a completely carbon fibre mag (minus the valve of course)

oo, and id deffinitly need a stiffi to go with this

ill get back to you guys later with weather or not its a go, and after that, if i do it, ill keep all of AO up to date on my project.

EDIT: i thought about all the problems they mentioned in the thread below, and i think i can solve them all, but thought of another problem, barrels.

double edit: good idea for barrel id mostlikely just end up putting a twist lock in there, and then probally DOC's thread adapter

if anyone else sees problems that could arise, please, LMK

i have access to a machine shop that does carbon fibre stuff all the time and they have some nifty things they do to keep it from unraveling like a guy in the thread below mentioned. the spring stop is not a problem as there is an easy way to combat that and im suprised no one has thought of it (gonna keep it a secret for now) and that would keep all pressure off the body.

mmm, this just keeps sounding better and better

[Chronobreak]

the ao search feature really does work

http://www.automags.org/forums/showthread.php?t=166918&highlight=carbon+fiber+ule

too $, too much tolerances, not anything significantly worth doing

dont bother

[PsychoBaller]

Suxoorrr... I almost got into this thread before it got shot down by facts... poo.

What about just making Carbon Fiber peices in general ?? CF Pump Kit? or like the new Foregrips Rouge is doing... u can thread the stuff no?

hmmm...

[Evil Bob]

Carbon fiber will function just fine, its very tough, it'll wear better then the hardened aluminum. Weapons manufacturers like Bushmaster, Glock, Smith & Wesson and many others have been using carbon fiber in their products for many years now. Bushmaster has an entire AR15/M16 rifle built out of the stuff. If it can survive the chamber pressure to fire an 5.56mm round out to 600m at over 2k fps, it can handle our trifle 400-500 pound chamber pressure easily.

The problem with it carbon is it's high cost to manufacture items from it when you compare it to other common materials that are cheaper and easier to work with such as aluminum.

-Evil Bob

[PsychoBaller]

I got it... .... wait for it.... TIN FOIL...

[amrani]

I got it... .... wait for it.... TIN FOIL...

umm, that was just worthless. it relates to the topic in the most minscule way possible, as carbon fiber is light, but strong as mr. ninja over here