Re: carbon fiber and flame

I think your best bet would probably be resistance soldering, and not flame. Resistance soldering is often a tweezer/tong like tool that creates heat at the contact points well, between them, actually, using the contacts to create a path for the low voltage current.

With the RS method, the heat is generated within the workpiece itself, not transferred or conducted into the workpiece from a source, such as torch or electrically heated tip.
This has been the preferred method of assembling mulit-conductor connectors with many solder connections.. such as military and aircraft avionics connectors.

You would need to practice with some pieces of the same size to find the best heat range to attain full solder penetration of the joint, but the RS method would accomplish the job with the least amount of damage to the nearby composite material.

American Beauty is one maker, but there have been numerous others, and maybe there still are a few.

A little added margin of protection could be had by using a cooling material on the composite material, such as heat barrier foam or putty which could easily be removed.

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"LLBrown" <waldhorn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:EGU6l.16487$ZP4.199@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I will be working on a project where I am covering brass pipes with carbon fiber and then soldering the pipes together. The torch will be about a half inch from the dried carbon fiber. Does the fiber react to heat or flames in any nasty way?

LLB


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