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Old 22 Apr 2011, 02:34 (Ref:2867922)   #1268
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Originally Posted by The Badger View Post
Reinforcements in the casing wouldnt help once the bonding starts to fall apart .

Mike ..... what temp can a gearbox get to , and whats the breakdown temp of carbon fibre ? Are you aware of any system of NDT that works in this day and age for CF . As far as I know , it doesnt exist ?

Also , any fatigue crack would quickly become contaminated with hot oil and detereiorate even quicker , breaking down the CF faster .
The failure won't be in the CF from heat. The epoxy will fail first in that case.
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