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Re: Actually not the first

Matt, I wish that too.

My original idea was to take a similar looking cast aluminum (outdoor waterproof) plate and infill the CF. That led to some experiments with just the ordinary aluminum plates that worked well.

Trouble is that the Oyaide piece of alum has a much wider opening than anything you'd find off the shelf and this does make a difference, according the Al's theory.

Then I experimented with laminating CF cloth in 2 layers (with carbon paper per Moray James' suggestion) behind a regular nylon plate and that worked very well indeed.

So I bought some CF blanks (aircraft manufacture cutouts) that were 1/2" thick on ebay and Al tooled them. We used them on top of the plates, because neither of us was able to tool this stuff to have it fit snugly the proper way that Oyaide does (they do know what they're doing over there). It was too thick and it eats tools for breakfast. This does also add a noticable improvement.

I've also jimmied up CF cloth sleeves for plug barrels and Al does it with CF sleeves on his too. We do it slightly differently, but it works in both applications.

The effects of the CF are cumulative. It's worth the experiment.

Al did post the theory and if you follow that, then you can figure out several ways to use CF that you don't see yet in Oyaide products.

Sadly, I don't know where to get the CF in the size, shape and formed like Oyaide does. That's why they get to charge the big bucks!


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