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Carbon fibre strip sizes: 3 × 0.5 to 12 × 2 mm
What sizes do carbon fibre strips (flat bar) come in? · Standard part · basis: Maker's product listings (Easy Composites carbon fibre strip)
Also called: carbon fiber strip sizes, carbon flat bar sizes, carbon spar cap strip, 3x1 carbon strip
Exact dimensions. True size, with no printing tolerance added.
- sizes
- 7 in table
Notes
- Pultruded carbon strip as listed (width × thickness, mm), 1000 and 2000 mm lengths. Used for spar caps, wing and fuselage stiffeners, kite spines.
- No file: a strip is a plain flat bar; width and thickness are the numbers to design a slot or cap pocket around.
Carbon fibre strip sizes: 3 × 0.5 to 12 × 2 mm size chart
| strip | width mm | thickness mm |
|---|---|---|
| 3 × 0.5 | 3 | 0.5 |
| 10 × 0.5 | 10 | 0.5 |
| 3 × 0.8 | 3 | 0.8 |
| 3 × 1 | 3 | 1 |
| 4 × 1 | 4 | 1 |
| 6 × 1 | 6 | 1 |
| 12 × 2 | 12 | 2 |
Where the files are
Other publishers' files are linked, not hosted. "verify" = check the license at the link before commercial use.
| Easy Composites | Carbon fibre strip (category: width x thickness in each title) | web | Publisher's page; dimensions are facts |
| Easy Composites | Technical datasheet: carbon fibre pultrusions (tube, rod, strip, box section sizes) | web | Publisher's page; dimensions are facts |
Xem scan
File coming
No downloadable true-size file yet: the published figures do not fix the whole shape, and Xem never guesses a number. A measured scan is planned; request it and it moves up.
https://xemstudio.com/mcp to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client (free, no account, one minute) and it can look up exact sizes, mating fits and free STEP/STL from every chat.Plain text: sheet.txt · JSON: /api/geometry?object=carbon-fibre-strip-sizes
Questions
What carbon strip sizes are there?
3 × 0.5, 3 × 0.8, 3 × 1, 4 × 1, 6 × 1, 10 × 0.5 and 12 × 2 mm in this maker's list.