Say I wanted to secure a flexible bearing to a carbon fibre beam

>>1094409
'clamp' by rolling the beam part way around the bearing and securing it with a slightly larger cut tube

>>1094431
You can roll carbon fibre?

>>1094452
you cant?

a sheet should be a little pliable

>>1094457
>>1094457
It's a fairly thick beam in the place of the lower wishbone

>>1094409
>flexible bearing
I feel like some part of my life was a lie.

>>1094461
How?

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I took PCB-grade glass fibre sheet here, and it works well. I installed the "bearings" at the ends by looping zip ties around little brass bushings. The zip ties also work as predetermined breaking points in case of overload. Now to your problem:
I assume your "carbon fibre beam" has a rectangular cross section, like an actual leaf spring would have, correct? In this case, you lightly sand the area you want the "bearing" to sit on, and you lightly sand a "bearing" in form of a metal tube which is 5mm wider than the "beam" on each side. Then you glue it on with CA. Then you wrap carbon, glass or kevlar fibre roving around everything until it looks solid, like this:
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Then heat it up with an air gun or hair dryer to around 60°C, and apply epoxy resin which is normally used to laminate glass fibre cloth. It will get liquid like water and will soak everything. Then put it in the oven at 50°C for curing for 2h or 3h. Then trim back the metal tube "bushing" until it is flush with the area wrapped with the fibre roving.
Now you have a solid connection between both parts. Practice several patterns with pieces of string first. And wear vinyl gloves when applying the epoxy at a well ventilated area.