Carbon fiber compression fittings not a viable thing?

[13eowulf]

Just wondering if carbon fiber as a material is a viable and good compression fitting for water cooling? 

If it works cant wouldn't it be less a hassle to clean the tubes for rusted metal parts?
 

[bowrilla]

Hardly possible. Carbon fibre relies on woven strength. How are you going to achieve that interwoven structure with threads? Not saying it's entirely impossible, but if it was possible the price would be ridiculous. People are already making fun of fitting pricing. Carbon fibre needs to be laminated. You can't just put it in a CNC machine and get a structurally sound piece out of it. I still doubt that you could be precise enough unless you're hiring some formula 1 engineers. At that point one fitting would cost probably as much as your whole system ... Twice.

 

A more viable material would be Delrin or Acetate since you can machine them. They still wouldn't last as long as a proper metal fitting made of brass or a similar material.

[Levent]

4 minutes ago, bowrilla said:

Hardly possible. Carbon fibre relies on woven strength. How are you going to achieve that interwoven structure with threads? Not saying it's entirely impossible, but if it was possible the price would be ridiculous. People are already making fun of fitting pricing. Carbon fibre needs to be laminated. You can't just put it in a CNC machine and get a structurally sound piece out of it. I still doubt that you could be precise enough unless you're hiring some formula 1 engineers. At that point one fitting would cost probably as much as your whole system ... Twice.

 

A more viable material would be Delrin or Acetate since you can machine them. They still wouldn't last as long as a proper metal fitting made of brass or a similar material.

even F1 cars use metal fittings.

[bowrilla]

13 minutes ago, Levent said:

even F1 cars use metal fittings.

Well, there are some pretty rare carbon fibre crankshafts in the wild though I'm not sure if they just glue in some metal parts for the threads.

[Mick Naughty]

Pure cf anything expensive and impractical unless there are a lot of layers.  Most is just reinforced with fg. 

 

Dont see a company wasting time on the engineering with no croud to sell too. Don’t know what hat fittings you’re using that are rusting. Doesn’t sound like a common problem.  

[W-L]

5 hours ago, 13eowulf said:

Just wondering if carbon fiber as a material is a viable and good compression fitting for water cooling? 

If it works cant wouldn't it be less a hassle to clean the tubes for rusted metal parts?
 

The parts wouldn’t rust since they are all copper or brass based but as said it wouldn’t be very viable to create something like that with complex features like threads. There are fittings with carbon fiber inserts if you are going for a unique look or design.