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In Reply to: Carbon fiber question posted by John Swenson on June 4, 2007 at 13:02:50:
Al and I have both used CF as a plate added to the outlet box as a cover or even over an outlet box cover. The stuff we're using is thick aircraft grade blanks, 3/8" thick, and hard to work plus hard to find. In that case it does require an extra large hole to pass the plug barrels through deep enough to seat in the outlets.
I also use in one application a double layer of epoxied CF cloth insde a nylon plate. That works too, but if done with a metal plate, you MUST put it on the exterior. This is easier material to find and work and poses no extra problems with seating a normal or audiophile plug as it isn't very thick at all.
One last way both of us use CF is as a cover/sleeve on the plug barrel exteriors themselves. There are several ways to do this, but easiest is to buy the 1.25" or larger sleeving from Soler as Al suggests and wrap or shrink wrap it into the exterior of the barrel. You can, in fact, sleeve an entire PC if you want, and Al told me it would probably work, but maybe not better than simply placing at the barrels and at the middle and nodes.
I use one last CF trick, but you have to be awfully careful with this one! I machined some of the circular cutouts from the thick plates to fit inside the barrels of the plugs and around the wires. This has to be carefully done so that it does not short or abrade the wires inside the plug. It also works.
Al can supply you (as he's written here several times) with the reasons different CF placements work. I won't repeat those.
In any case, you want to make sure the CF cannot make contact with the circuitry in any way directly, as I understand that CF is somewhat conductive.
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