Carbon or diolen lay up?

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PIPKIN	PIPKIN posted 11 Years Ago HOT Topic Details
Group: Awaiting Activation Posts: 2, Visits: 6	Hi I'm working with a group of A Level students who are building an electric powered race car. The body skin will be in a composite material, eithe Diolen or Carbon, we will be using a hand lay up process with a pigmented gel coat. We have purchased GC50 gel coat and appropriate catalyst, epoxy EL2 laminating resin and AT30 slow hardner. Advice would be appreciated with regard to the selection of the reinforcement cloth and please remeber we do have a tight budget. Consideration is a 300gsm diolen woven cloth, if so how many layers would we require considering that it will only be a skin to a stuctural chassi. Alternatively, if we used the Black stuff carbon fibre 2/2 twill 3K how many layers would we require for rigid body skin. Weight and cost are the key factors, is it worth going for carbon over diolen for our application. Cheers Paul
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