210g (6.2oz) Orange 2x2 Twill 3k Carbon Fiber Cloth 1m (39")

Gross Weight	0.21	kg

0-4	5-9	10-49	50-99	100+
$31.20	$29.65	$28.10	$26.50	$24.95

Stunning orange carbon fiber fabric for a truly eye-catching part!

This very special fabric uses genuine 3k carbon fiber interwoven with a bright orange aramid to create an amazing fabric that shimmers with bright orange but is also distinctively carbon fiber with the jet black diagonal stripes of the 2/2 twill weave pattern.

Typical Uses

This special colored fabric can be used in just the same way as standard carbon fiber and will bring a stunning and unique appearance to any project.

It is suitable for use in wet-lay, vacuum bagging and resin infusion manufacture as well as for use as a single surface layer where parts are being made to look like carbon fiber (skinning).

Please note that owing to the 50% colored aramid yarn content of this fabric it does not have the same mechanical properties as 100% carbon fiber fabric, although it is still a high performance fabric.

How to Buy

This carbon fiber twill orange roll is 1m (39") wide and the fabric is sold by the linear meter (1 meter = 1.09 yards). The unit price shown is for 1 linear meter but volume discounts automatically apply for larger quantities of fabric.

Please purchase the number of linear meters you require. When purchasing multiple meters the fabric will be supplied in one continuous length on a roll.

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For wet-lay lamination you will use approximately the same weight of resin as the weight of the fabric. For example, with a 200gsm cloth, for 1 square metre you will have 200g of fabric and thus will need 200g of resin to wet it out, plus a small amount of wastage for the brush and mixing pot.

'3k' is the filament count or tow size. It simply means that each 'bunch' of carbon fibres that this cloth is woven from is made up of 3000 individual carbon filaments. Bigger counts (6k, 12k etc.) means chunkier 'bunches' of carbon so chunkier fabrics.

Thickness of any reinforcement is dependent on consoldation (how much it's 'squashed down'. For this reason we generally give out thickness figures for when the reiforcement is consoldated under vacuum (1bar); this seems like the most useful figure. For example, a 90gsm carbon, a single layer, compressed under vacuum, would be about 0.1mm thick. For a 200gsm carbon a single layer would be about 0.25mm thick. This is the number you see listed under 'thickness' in the specification table.

You can purchase a sample of our fabrics here.

Well, this depends entirely on what reinforcement you're laminating, speficically how thick and heavy it is. If you're laminating 5mm of carbon fibre you'll use a lot more resin that if you're laminating just 1mm of it. Fortunately though there a really quick rule to get a good estimate - simply add up the total weight of your reinforcement and you'll probably need the same weight in resin. This means that if you're laminating 5 layers of 200g carbon (so a total of 1000g of carbon) then you'll want about 1000g (i.e. 1kg) of Epoxy Resin. If it was 2 layers of 450g glass then you'd need about 900g per square metre.

The carbon fabric itself will survive many hundreds of degrees and is not the limiting factor for almost all applications. The limiting factor will be the heat distortion temperature of the resin system you plan to laminate this fabric with.

An engine rocker/cam cover may easily be exposed to hot oils at around 120°C as well as heat from the exhaust which would be dependent on the engine configuration and level of tune. As such we would recommend considering using a higher temperature resin system such as our Very High Temperature Epoxy Laminating Resin which, with an appropriate post-cure, can be used up to 180°C.

An alternative option would be to consider making the part with an out of autoclave pre-preg carbon fibre where typically the resin systems can achieve a HDT up to 120°C.

For very critical applications, such as aerospace, even dry carbon fabrics will be 'lifed' due to very gradual degradation of the sizing on the fibres, however in practice, for most applications, the degradation is minimal and most users would consider dry fabrics to not have a shelf life when stored appropriately.

All Carbon fibres are naturally charcoal black in colour.

Sorry, no. Our coloured hybrid carbon fabrics are currently available only as a raw carbon cloth - we do not have a pre-preg option.