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Re: Carbon Fiber

While I have been with our team for only the last year and a half, they pride themselves that there has been at least some functional component made of carbon fiber each year, even if it is just shields and the electronics base.

As mentioned above, be careful as the carbon fiber is electrically conductive so you have to insulate any items that do not like to be electrically grounded (*cough* old cRio case *cough*). What we did last year was use a Kevlar sheet on one side instead of the top layer of carbon so it was insulated, and the mountings were with either velcro or double sided tape.