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Jacopo Carbonio
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Great work  I love photos during the process 
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VVS
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Can i just say photobucket is a real pain and has a mind of its own, if the pictures are of different sizes and orientation then please forgive me, I've spent hours trying to upload and edit only to find it saves what ever it chooses. Still not made the time to make the the seat mould but I've polished the seat and started to cut some of the flanges, In the mean time I set up to make the rear hugger and front mudguard. Rear Hugger. Bagged the hugger having laid the mould with one 200grm pro carbon, two layers 200grm twill, peel ply and mesh. Through connectors are doing the business and stopping the micro leaks.  Resin infusing and looking good.  Infusion finished, everything went as planed and i was looking forward to breaking the part out.  RIGHT, again three slight pulls in the part. Paul at EC kindly de moulded the part and I was a little miffed at the marks as I'd been super careful when I laid everything up.  As soon as I went through the process with Paul and told him I'd used the pro carbon he stopped me and explained that this was the probable cause of weave pulls. TRICKS OF THE TRADE. You learn every time you touch this stuff. Paul showed me a little trick with the pro carbon. It doesn't like compound curves and so a little heat applied using a hot air gun is needed. Lay the CF and then gently warm it with the heat gun, this softens it enough to get a nice drape with no pulls. Will it work!!!! Front Mudguard. With my new found skills I got stuck in. I have used the two different types of mesh, the soft is VERY difficult to remove so i only used it in the square centre of the mudguard. All bagged up ready for resin.  Resin infusing. You can see the different flow rate of the different mash types, soft mesh is in the middle.  Another picture later on during the infusion, you can see that the soft mesh wets out slower than the normal mesh by the white spot in the middle.  Finally a part that im 100% happy with!  Mudguard looks great. Again I'm learning and moving in the right direction. Paul has kindly offered to do another hugger with me to see if he can iron out a few of my bad habits, Where else would you get that sort of service. Nose cone mould is polished so I will be making the finished part in the next week or so.
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VVS (16/06/2015)
Cheers Chris.
If you remember we had a chat at EC one Saturday morning.
Got to sort the lay ups next.
Regarding your 50cc racer you should talk a guy by the name of Dave Boothroyd, he lives near me in Biddulph and ran a company call 2cycle developments,
he was a lecturer in marine engineering and raced, rebuilt and tuned 80cc single cylinder 2t gp bikes, really knows his stuff about 2t singles and made one off expansion pipes for them.
Chris.Hi Chris Yes I remember having a chat , we are having a good year with the bike and my rider took 3.5 secs of the lap record first time out but he has been offered a ride in BSB this weekend so I have another rider for our next meeting on Sunday. It looks like you have the carbon bug  Regards Chris Carbon fibre works LTD
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VVS
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Cheers Chris.
If you remember we had a chat at EC one Saturday morning.
Got to sort the lay ups next.
Regarding your 50cc racer you should talk a guy by the name of Dave Boothroyd, he lives near me in Biddulph and ran a company call 2cycle developments,
he was a lecturer in marine engineering and raced, rebuilt and tuned 80cc single cylinder 2t gp bikes, really knows his stuff about 2t singles and made one off expansion pipes for them.
Chris.
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carbonfibreworks
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Very nice work Chris Carbon fibre works LTD
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VVS
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Haha, still learning my trade, should have it sussed by the time I finish the bike,
problem then is I will have to redo all the panels as I wont be happy with the first ones.
You ever fancied a Katana 1100, I'd love to see one done in cf with some nice Yoshi parts + racefit titanium, that would be worth doing.
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impressive work, I might have to buy another bike just so you can make some parts for it
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VVS
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Found a few hours so pulled the nose cone from the new mould.  WOW, so glad i repainted the panels as near perfect finish in the mould, apart from the 4 or 5 tiny pieces of paint (that peck off with a finger nail) its good enough to use as is. I will give it a quick once over with the mop and polish then start applying the easy lease. 
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VVS
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Yes got you mate and already there. I've purchased some FusionFix™ GP and also got some pro carbon for the side panels.Intend to have a go with both and compare the out come.I'm glad I've stayed with the moulds as im my confident with my work and the 10 minute V piece is as good as something id have spend three days on previously.
If I can get another done for the holiday I will have time to do a few carbon parts and hopefully nail the finished parts.I feel ok with the infusing but everything that I've wet lay and bagged has been slightly off so I will make a few of the panel ends and see if i can get a better feel for it,seems a darker art than the infusion.
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