Hello Guys!

Have been off the scene for a while, but I feel a project coming up very shortly. Have been flying a lot of model aircraft lately and have a beauty of a waterplane. The thing is it came with some very very light glass fiber floats, I assume about two layers max. of some light cloth. Some harder landings cause them to crack in sum places and flex causing paint to chip off. I would like to produce them in Carbon Fiber, (2 layers light cloth 90 or 130 g per sqm) in infusion, possibly with inmould coating/gel coat.

My initial questions to everybody out there now are, what would be the best way to go about making these moulds, ideally I would make a two part (seperate, not split) vertically down the center line, so the parts could be subsequently joined.

The pictures show the potential plug I will be using.



 




I would make two moulds (halves) for one float, because they are symetric, apart from the tabs, which can be subsequently installed in a mirrored fashion.

I would be willing to cut a float lengthways if needed. Was planning to try the unimould system.

All ideas are welcome! Lets hear them!

Cheers