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OK Capt. Semantics, carbon fiber parts aren't much use without the resin now are they? [/quote]

What I ment to say is that for the carbonfibre composite there isn't much difference with the good oldfashioned glass composite.

The "weak" component remains the resin: UV detoriation, critical for weight ratio tissue/resin, hardening complications (moisture,etc), after-hardening, etc.

Sometimes people forget that the only function of the resin is keeping the filaments of the glass/carbon/kevlar/orwhatever tissue together and in place.
This requires a very specific close-fitting fabrication of any composite. So from this point of view there isn't much difference between glass and carbon laminates.

A lot laymen think that Carbonfibre composites are some kind of miracle material (well it is invented in aerospace-industry), but it isn't.

It has the same usual disadvantages as all the other composites (infact even more).

For the rest, I'm all in what Scarecrow wrote above.