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    Sony makes a notebook (SZ 281) that has a case made mostly out of carbon fiber so i doubt it would be much of a problem.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GT40_GearHead
    since carbon is a conductor , and a preaty good one to
    Not if you clear coat it...

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    Default Re: Carbon Fiber...

    Thanks Razors Edge and dgrmkr. That's kinda what I was thinking. But Cool1Net6 you bring up another question. Even if I clear coat like crazy and cover the inside with some sort of insulator, what about the screws that pass through the case and go to the chassis. To what extent should I be worried about this?

    If I get some time, I'll try to whip up a nifty 3d model of what I'm thinking about and hopefully I can get more advice on how to fab. the front face.

    Thanks for all your input!

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    i dout you will have any problem making anything with the carbon...
    fact...
    carbon conducts
    fact...
    you will make something with the carbon, that needs to be ridged
    fact...
    you will need to coat your carbon in a resin that is most likely not so
    conductive
    fact...
    carbon is cool

    oh and if you want to be safe.... get a rubber mat for your mobo..seein as it will be one of the only exposed electronic device that will actually come into contact with your carbon
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    Here's a rough picture of what I would like to do.



    my old computer is reminding me why I need a new one, I should have had a complete model by now. oh well. Anyway, the black would obviously be the carbon and the grey would be a brushed aluminum. I plan on just screwing these straigt to the chassis I have that way I don't have to worry about rubber mats, although that might be a smart thing to use anyway. As soon as I actually get some real stuff built, I'll get some pics so everyone will start building sweet CF cases! But, since I'm a bit broke right now, it might be a while, I just wanted to make sure that I wasn't being totally ignorant in wanting to use CF for the case. Thanks for all the help!

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    Quote Originally Posted by jefe_de_estado
    ...Even if I clear coat like crazy and cover the inside with some sort of insulator, what about the screws that pass through the case and go to the chassis...
    Steel conducts electricity, and so does aluminum, yet they make cases out of those. Motherboards are designed that those screw points are non-conductive. As long as the back of the mobo doesnt touch any conductive material (meaning use the mobo stand-offs), and as long as the rest of the open circuitry (like the bottom of hard drives) doesnt touch any conductive material, I dont see any problems.

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    using CF is fine there are others out there that have done it. It maybe conductive as others said just like what is used in standard cases today. Just use the brass standoffs where you have a hole on the motherboard (the extra solder ring around then holes are to give you enough room to screw it down).

    IF your worried about it use the red insulated washers that typically comes with a new case.

    There are also non-conductive resins that you can get as well.

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