Kayak heel rest and seats

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panda	panda posted 10 Years Ago HOT Topic Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 47, Visits: 2.1K	Been making up a mold for a racing kayak heel rest and a seat and thought I would post up my progress here. The images are not the best quality but hope you get the idea. The front and back of the original made out of glass. I'm going to make some adjustments to this so that it will come out the mold easier. I flanged this up with some old mdf board and waxed it with some filleting wax around the edges to seal it. I forgot to take some pictures of the plug flanged but I backed up the plug with a homemade epoxy gel coat out of EC epoxy resin and fumed-silica. This has given a nicy shiny finish to the mold surface and I am pretty pleased with how it turned out. Layup of the mold was 100g glass tape, 200g carbon, 1mm spherotex core, 200g carbon, 100g glass tape. This has given a strong mold if not a bit over the top. Bit expensive to complete large molds this way but hopefully they will last the course! I will follow up in a few hours with pictures of the mold and the seat! Tom www.pandakayaks.co.uk
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