Carbon repairers? Advice

[Canuk]

I've bought this vintage American Classic (turn of the millennium) wheel to try and repair it. I've watched a few videos with carbon repair sheet and epoxy, but I'm intrigued if it could be simply be 'filled'. The damage is light and it's no more than 0.75mm deep. The wheel won't see a lot of use, mostly short distance local time trials. It's a clincher, 85mm deep.

Has anyone got experience of this kind of repair or point in the right direction? I've made about half a dozen simple frame and wheel repairs in Carbon so not a complete newbie.

 

[Nob]

H Q Fibre Products were to go to guys for carbon repairs especially wheels. Not sure they still do repairs so call them.

Blofield Rd, Lingwood, Norfolk England, NR13 4AJ

01603 713972

01603 713972

 

[bikeworkshop]

I don't see that it's under stress at that point?

In reality, damaged carbon is worthless but potentially usable - you could just fill it, smooth it off and then monitor closely -

professionally speaking it's a write-off because the structure of the material is too hard to determine.
But that doesn't mean it doesn't work any more!

 

[Canuk]

Yeah that's what I was thinking when I picked it up, throw in a couple of bits of fibre mat and a load of epoxy wait for it to cure and then sand it back to round/flat. The guy said he did the damage on a turbo trainer, could be bollox but it doesn't look an impact site.

It's only gonna see use on my son's triathlon set up so 3 or 4 events a season. Reckon it should be okay to ride