For a project, I have some aluminum cylindrical tubes, roughly 2" in diameter and 10" long.
I'm toying with the idea of replacing the tubes with home-made carbon fiber tubes. Even though I'm new to working with carbon fiber I should be able to figure that stuff out.
The problem that I'm trying to figure out though, is how to make a mold to properly make carbon fiber tubes that are "exactly" the same dimensions as my existing alum tubes?
I need the carbon fiber tubes to be the same length, same inner and outer diameter.
Carbon fiber typically has to be wrapped around a mold. But in this case, the mold to wrap around would have to be equal diameter to the inner diameter of the existing tubes. Wrap carbon fiber around it enough times and I'll get a carbon fiber tube with the same inner and outer diameters as the existing tube.
Does that make sense? Where do I begin? Anyone point me in the right direction?