How to make a carbon fiber block?

[Punx0r]

The oil compatibility issue was one of the first things I thought of too.

To be honest it's a weird tie up: Racing cars and golf clubs. The use of carbon fibre for club heads appears to be driven entirely by fashion. I can't think of a single possible advantage of CF over metal. I mean, isn't the requirement for a club head be that it's hard, stiff and heavy?

Just done a bit more reading and the forged stuff is made with chopped mat. It's the mass-production answer to hand laid fibre and while it's better at forming intricate shapes and fine details it is not as strong as proper, directional fibre.

 

[Voltron]

I'm no golfer, but drivers wouldn't have evolved to having carbon shafts and hollow titanium heads if being heavy helped.... Having a club you can accelerate quicker to get to the ball at a higher speed, and stiff but springy club face that launches the ball seems to be what works better.... Or they would still be using actual woods?

 

[Punx0r]

True, looking back the stuff about Callaway did specifically refer to drivers and I was thinking of irons and woods. I'm not much of a golfer - on the rare occasion I do play there's usually a lot of beer involved...

 

[Voltron]

Yes, I'm a round of beers more than a round of golf guy too.

 

[markz]

I can't remember the last time I played golf. I have always had a bad slice, lefty too. I did go mini putting with the children last year, but they are getting up there now, ones going into their teens.

 

[Dauntless]

I can't think of a single possible advantage of CF over metal. I mean, isn't the requirement for a club head be that it's hard, stiff and heavy?

Far less chance of bending/warping. Carbon fiber does its' best distorting in the first few hours.

Advise them about their oil pans/sumps that are carbon fiber, too. Not just Maserati, the oil industry needs to be warned about using composite pipelines, plugs that are easier to drill out/etc., oh the offshore drilling that is in danger from carbon fiber.

https://www.compositesworld.com/articles/carbon-fiberpeek-take-hydraulic-pump-to-new-depths

http://www.jeccomposites.com/knowledge/international-composites-news/high-performance-pvdf-carbon-fiber-composite-tape-oil-and