1. What is fake carbon fiber?
Everyone knows that real carbon fiber products are very expensive, so a relatively cheap "carbon fiber" pattern product has been derived - water transfer carbon fiber.
Water transfer is a product of ABS transfer pattern. As the name suggests, it just transfers a carbon fiber pattern on the surface.
How to transfer? It is to spray a layer of oil film on the water surface, a carbon fiber oil film, and then press the product into the water or lift it into the water. The entire oil film will adhere to the product, and a water transfer carbon fiber product will be formed.
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2. What is real carbon fiber?
For details, please see this article - IS WET CARBON OR DRY CARBON BETTER FOR APPEARANCE PARTS?
3. Several ways to distinguish
a. Fire roasted: Real carbon fiber can be baked with an open flame, but fake carbon fiber is nothing more than high-quality plastic, which will show signs of melting after being baked with an open flame for a while. Real carbon fiber will turn red when baked with fire, but it will not burn, and will return to its original state after a short period of burning.
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In general, real carbon fiber is relatively light, hard, and resistant to high temperatures. It has obvious knitting patterns when viewed with the naked eye.
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