Buying an Autoclave?

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Buying an Autoclave?

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scottracing	scottracing posted 10 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 460, Visits: 5.2K	I managed to purchase a couple of laboratory ovens of ebay and with a decent vac pump its great for curing composites. Have a good look on the easy composite you tube videos and through the projects on here, then start pricing up all the materials and consumables you need, its not a cheap hobby
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Hanaldo	Hanaldo posted 10 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 2.5K, Visits: 28K	I'd give it a miss then. Build yourself a simple oven with a good PID controller and get into OOA pre-pregs. It's great stuff, exceptionally easy to use and you won't waste the time and money you would trying to repurpose that autoclave.
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Nusse	Nusse posted 10 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 2, Visits: 50	Thanks for your input. Today I'm not doing any composites work at all. I understand that for most jobs an aotoclave is not at all necessary. //Magnus
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scottracing	scottracing posted 10 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 460, Visits: 5.2K	As hanaldo says ooa pre pregs are just as good depending on your application. autoclaves arent cheap to run and you will probably need to do a bit of work to that one to make it suitable.
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Hanaldo	Hanaldo posted 10 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 2.5K, Visits: 28K	What are you making? In my opinion, OOA pre-preg makes autoclaves pretty redundant unless you're doing stuff for the F1.
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Nusse	Nusse posted 10 Years Ago HOT Topic Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 2, Visits: 50	Hi all, This is my very first post... I'm thinking of buying an autoclave. I have only received a few pictures so far. It's 2 meter long and 0.9 m i diameter (inside). It's probably only approved for 3 bar. 50 years old and used for vacuum and steam threatment at a yarn factory, I think... I will probably have to redo a lot to make it work. Price: ~£500. What do you think. PS I have no experience of prepreg and autoclave so far ;-) Best Regards, Magnus Attachments koenig.jpg (2 views, 672.00 KB)
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