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i mainly work with carbon fibre
i only use fibreglass to make moulds, which means i work with fibreglass only a couple of times a year
i wear a respirator and gloves when working with it and in addition to that i wear a full suit and safety glasses when trimming it - never ever skip PPE when cutting composites!

>is it true if you get even a scratch on carbon fiber the material unravels like a cloth doesn't make sense to me since you're soaking it in plastic or whatever
carbon fibre is just a woven cloth which is made up of hundreds of very thin strands or "tows" as they're called, and it's all held together solely by stitching at the edges so there's not actually anything holding the shape within the centre of the cloth so to speak (other than the stitching)
an easy fix for that is to use a spray adhesive to quickly cover the entire cloth and leave it for about 30 minutes, the fabric is then almost impossible to distort afterwards