How hot?dsschanze said:Can a carbon frame in anyway be damaged by being in a hot car?
Thanks,
Derek
No problem.dsschanze said:normal sunny day...probably 100-110 degrees inside car
dsschanze said:normal sunny day...probably 100-110 degrees inside car
sideshow_bob said:how relevant this is i don't know. but to avoid illustrating my own stupidity, i'm going to say "a friend of mine" taped their tires to cf rims using the tufo extreme tape. well using the tape wasn't the stupid part.
the front tire required a change and trying to pull the tire was overly difficult. so he decided to pull the tire over as far as possible exposing the tape, and gently heating the tape with a heat gun.
he was holding the tire with bare fingers so the heat wasn't extreme. after about 20 seconds '****' a section of rim has all the carbon layers simultaneously delaminate and a very expensive rim is now trashed.
it didn't take much, so i'd say would i expose a frame to hi temperatures for any extended period of time, or regularly? probably better not to.
but i think you mean in those cases a section of the rim bed delaminated or had a chunk pulled out of it. which i've seen occur.alienator said:There have been a few cases of that with Tufo Extreme tape, and the problem was a rim manufacturing problem, not a tape or heat problem. Zipp has freely acknowledged that in cases that involved their rims.
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